Study and Classification of Ritual-Religious Rock Architecture in the County of Maragheh

Sattarnezhad, Saeid; Omrani, Behrouz; Naseri-Someeh, Hossein; Hosseininiya, Seyed Mehdi

doi:10.30699/pjas.4.11.153

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“…11 Archaeological studies in this area show that another type of work of the Mongol Il-khanate period is rock architecture. 12 However, many Iranian scholars have attributed many of these works to the Parthian period in their studies due to their unfamiliarity with the history of the Mongol Ilkhanate. Many of these cave temples have been carved out to suit Buddhist beliefs in north-western Iran.…”

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Buddhist Remains from Times of Il-Khanate in North-western Iran

Pourianzhad,

Sattarnejad,

Parvin

2023

Studies in People's History

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of the Mongol Il-khanate in the spread of Buddhism in Iran. The centre of this government was located in the north-western region of Iran, and traces of the Mongol Il-khanate have remained in this region. The article traces Buddhist cave temples in the north-western region of Iran, viz., Maragheh and Zanjan. It offers reports on the sites of Imamzadeh Ma‘sum, Pirhashem, Kohul Machid and Qirkh Kohul in Maragheh and Dashkasan Temple in Zanjan. Then, references to Buddhism in the historical sources of the Il-khanate period, have been traced. Buddhist cave-cut structures were abandoned or altered for other use, after the acceptance of Islam by the Il-khanate rulers, beginning with Ghazan Khan.

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“…The first Buddhist cave temples were located in the city of Maragheh. According to written sources, a church was also built by Christians 28 during the Il-khanate period. The church was built on the western slope of the observatory hill on a rock bed in a relatively large area.…”

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