Menucihr Mosque Explained
| Building Name: | Menûçihr Camii |
| Native Name Lang: | Turkish |
| Religious Affiliation: | Islam |
| Map Type: | Turkey |
| Map Relief: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 40.51°N 43.57°W |
| Location: | Kars Province |
| Province: | Kars |
| Architecture Type: | Mosque |
| Architecture Style: | Islamic Architecture |
| Groundbreaking: | 1072 |
| Year Completed: | 1086 |
| Minaret Quantity: | 1 |
| Architecture: | yes |
Menucihr Mosque, also Manučehr Mosque is a mosque in the medieval city of Ani in Kars Province, Turkey. It was built between 1072 and 1086[1] by Manuchihr ibn Shavur of the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty. The restoration of the mosque started in June 2020.[2] [3] [4]
Style
The style of the vault is considered as similar to that of the gavit or zhamatun of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Ani (built before 1217), suggesting broadly similar dates and circumstances.[5]
Inscriptions
A kufic inscription in a long band on its left façade related to the foundation of the mosque by Manuchihr ibn Shavur, under the government of Seljuk Sultan Malik-Shah I:[6]
A small trilingual inscription in the bottom left corner reads:
On top of it are a large Mongol Ilkhanid yarligh inscription of 1319, a taxation edict.[6] [4]
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Ani Cultural Landscape . Unesco . 31 . Researchers has dated the structure to the year of 1086.
- Web site: SHADDADIDS – Encyclopaedia Iranica. 2020-12-13. iranicaonline.org.
- Web site: 2020-06-25. Anatolia’s 1st Turkish mosque to open to worship after restoration. 2021-06-02. The Frontier Post. en-US.
- Book: Kalas . Veronica . Tumanishvili . D. . Georgian Arts in the Context of European and Asian Cultures . 211-216 . The Georgian Aspects of Medieval Architecture at Ani in the Thirteenth Century: The Church of Tigran Honents and the Mosque of Minuchir . 2008 . Georgia Arts and Cultural Center . Tbilissi .
- Book: Eastmond . Antony . Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia . 1 January 2017 . 130, note 15 . 10.1017/9781316711774.007 . Cambridge University Press . This date is based on the similarity between its stone vaults and those of the zhamatun of the church of the Holy Apostles, which has a terminus ante quem of 1217, determined by the earliest surviving inscription there: Orbeli, Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, no. 56; Basmadjian, Inscriptions armeniennes d’Ani, no. 49..
- Eastmond . Antony . Inscriptions and Authority in Ani . Der Doppeladler. Byznanz und die Seldschuken in Anatolien vom späten 11. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert, eds. Neslihan Austay-Effenberger, Falko Daim . 1 January 2014 . 75-76, Fig.5 .
