Fakhr-ol-dowleh Mosque

In 1945, Fakhr-ol-Dowleh, who was married to Amin-ol-Dowleh junior, son of Mirza Ali Khan Amin-ol-Dowleh, decided to build a mosque named after Mirza Ali Khan in front of her house. However, the name of the mosque, and the neighborhood it's located in, changed to Fakhr-ol-Dowleh over time. She appointed Russian architect Nikolai Markov, one of the most notable architects in Iran at the time, to design and build the mosque. Construction of the building took four years to complete. Ayatollah Haj Mirza Khalil Kamarah'i served as imam at the mosque for over thirty years. == Architecture ==

Built during the second Pahlavi era, the mosque design is a combination of the Qajar and Persian architectural styles visible in its original geometry and composition, based on a plan of Byzantine temples. The building façade consists of bricks and marquetry mosaics and the half-octagonal-shaped entrance has four small minarets on each corner. The dome of the building originally wasn't very high; the current taller dome was built in subsequent years. Also, subway trains pass under the mosque every two minutes. The tremors caused by passing trains have cracked the dome of the mosque, and some mosaics on the facade have fallen off the walls. == See also ==