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	Iran - Yazd: the 12th century Friday or Grand Mosque was built under Ala'oddoleh Garshasb of the Al-e Bouyeh dynasty - Jameh masjid			Iran - Yazd: twin minarets of the Takyeh Amir Chakhmagh complex - a medieval gate from the original walled city
	Yazd: Shesh Badgiri anbar or 'Six wind catcher' reservoir - Qajar period - wind towers			Yazd: windcatchers and dome at the Fatemeh-ye-Golshan cistern - badgirs
	Yazd: dome and two wind towers at the Shesh Badgiri cistern - badgirs - Ab Anbar			Yazd: a quintessential alley of Yazd, with pointed arches and a wind catcher - old town
	Yazd: wind tower at Heidarzadah's Museum of Coin and Antropology - badghir			Yazd: Clock tower - Hazrat Mahdi avenue sign
	Iran - Yazd: cistern and windcatcher, windtower or "Badgir" - traditional Persian architectural device used to create natural ventilation			Iran - Yazd: cistern (ab anbar) and four wind towers
	Yazd: windcatcher at the Shesh Badgiri cistern - wind towers use the Coanda effect			Yazd: Clock tower - detail
	Iran - Yazd: tower of silence or Dakhmeh, used to dispose of dead bodies - to avoid contaminating the earth in Zoroastrian funerary tradition bodies were left to be eaten by the birds			Iran - Yazd: tower of silence and domes - Dakmeh-ye Zartoshtiyan
	Iran - Yazd: interior of a tower of silence or Dakhmeh - Muslim culture prevents Zoroastrians from using the dakhma			Yazd: portrait of a man
	Iran - Yazd: tower of silence or Dakhmeh and the desert			Yazd: Mullah walking along a covered street in the historical area
	Yazd: Zoroastrian tower of silence in the southern outskirts of the city - Dakhmeh-ye Zartoshtiyun - deme			Yazd: shebeke panel seen from the outside - Iranian coloured glass
	Iran - Yazd: an elderly man slowly walks along the old streets of the desert city			Iran - Yazd: Zoroastrian faithful at a fire sanctuary
	Iran - Yazd: view from a minaret - avenue leading to the Dasht-e Kavir desert - clay brick architecture			Iran - Yazd: wind towers and clay brick architecture - the city is an oasis at the border between the Dasht-e Kavir and Dasht-e Lut deserts
	Iran - Yazd: terraces and wind tower - clay brick architecture			Iran - Yazd: view from a minaret - domes, wind towers and earth coloured houses
	Yazd: stairs leading to a cistern - Shesh Badgiri anbar - Sar-dar entrance			Yazd: windcatcher and sky - badgir
	Iran - Yazd: vaulted mosque-like facade of the Takyeh Amir Chakhmagh complex			Yazd: houses have segregated door knockers - on the left with a hole for women and on the right, cylindrical, for men - these have different sounds, informing on the gender of the visitor
	Yazd: arcade flanking the Takyeh Amir Chakhmagh complex, incorporating a mosque, a public bath, a caravansary, a mausoleum, cisterns and a bazaar entrance			Yazd: Takyeh Amir Chakhmagh complex - the contraption on the right side of the portal is used for the Day of Ashura - Dehkok quarter
	Yazd: Mir Chaqmaq Mosque - Masjid-e Nau - construction started by Jalal Al-din Chaqmaq Shami, governor under Timurid ruler Shah Rukh in 1436			Yazd: former water reservoir, now a gym, with four windtowers - badgirs - badjeers - windcatchers
	Yazd: Takyeh Amir Chakhmagh complex - portal built of sun dried mud bricks ornamented with stucco and calligraphic friezes in Naskh and Thulth scripts			Yazd: Shrine of the 12 Imams - Maghbareh-ye Davazdah Emam - 11th century mud brick architecture - inside there are inscriptions with the names of the 12 Shiite Imams, but none of them are buried in the building
	Yazd: Hazireh Mosque is crowned by a pair of minarets			Yazd: Hazireh Mosque - portal with dazzling tile work
	Yazd: baker and tandoor oven with bread on the walls - bakery			Yazd: a badgir from inside - windcatcher interior
	Yazd: baking bread in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven			Yazd: sajdagahs or turbas - prayer tablets made of Karbala clay, infused with the blood of the Imam Hussein, martyred there in 680 - prostration on clean earth is compulsory in Shia Islam
	Yazd: hunting scene - petroglyphs from Ernan village - Alexander's Prison			Yazd: Alexander's Prison - used by Czar Alexander the Great when he ruled over Persia as a jail, but originally a 15th century madraseh mentioned in a Hafez poem - Ziaeieh School - Iskendar jail
	Yazd: alley with arches - streets of old Yazd			Yazd: yazd bagh e Dovlat Abad garden at night - tall windcatcher
	Yazd: city walls - tower and ramparts - military architecture			Iran - Yazd: shoemaker at work in the bazaar - cobbler