Darb-e Imam

The shrine of Darb-e Imam (Persian: امامزاده درب امام‎), located in the Dardasht quarter of Isfahan, Iran, is a funerary complex, with a cemetery, shrine structures, and courtyards belonging to different construction periods and styles. The first structures were built by Jalal al-Din Safarshah, during the Qara Qoyunlu reign in 1453.

Darb-e-Imam shrine, Isfahan

The girih tiles
Girih tile subdivision found in the decagonal girih pattern on a spandrel from the Darb-e Imam shrine
Further information: girih and Islamic geometric patterns

Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt have studied Islamic tiling patterns, called girih tiles. They strongly resemble Penrose tilings, to which the designs on the Darb-e Imam shrine are almost identical.

See also

References
  • Lu, P. J.; Steinhardt, P. J. (2007). "Decagonal and Quasi-crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture". Science. 315 (5815): 1106–1110. doi:10.1126/science.1135491. PMID 17322056.

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