Soviet funeral practices for members of the state elite are built on two factors. They use achievements antiquity and Bible, depend position deceased at time their death. On one hand, ‘elite’ refers to highest-ranked representatives authorities (primarily first secretaries party marshals army sometimes very meritorious activists). The custom mummification, which was taken from used Lenin Stalin...

the era of sadradin mosa safavi (1334-1389) coincided with disintegration of the ilkhanid dynasty and the start of the fatrat period one of the most important periods in which the safavid family tried to preserve and expand their properties and possessions resorting to popular actions like building sufis’ house and monastery. during this period not only sadrodin made conscious efforts to expa...

Quality is a highly esoteric concept which compels theorists to offer different explanations. Based on library resources, quality can be defined as an interaction between individuals and their environment, which is caused by a set of environmental components differing in each environment. This paper studied the concept of quality in public courtyards. The Mausoleum of Shah Ni’mat-Allah Vali, wh...

 In the culture of Kazakh Turks, Alasha Khan is known as a legendary saint who tried to integrate nomadic tribes living in steppes Kazakhstan and also founded khanate. In folklore sources old period, it told that Alaşa Han broke away from society with birth us leprosy child established state 300 hundred soldiers. documents collected by Russian researchers came occupy region during Tsarist ...

this article is a survey on motifs and naïve aesthetic of wall painting from holy mausoleums (boghee or imamzadeh) in gilan. the province gilan in north iran had very holy mausoleums (boghee). over walls of most these mausoleums had painted religious icons, figures and inscriptions in naive style. among the holy mausoleums, licha mausoleum is quite popular of which walls and columns had painted...

The prisoner of war camp in Jindřichovice (German: Heinrichsgrün), located the Ore Mountains on territory modern Czech Republic, was one largest such camps First World War Austria-Hungary. In period from 1915 to 1918, tens thousands prisoners Serbia, Montenegro, Russian Empire, and Italy passed through it. Many Serbian civilians were interned addition military personnel. Over 170 buildings erec...

in the islamic era, mausoleums were considered as the most important after mosques. constructing these buildings dates from the fourth century after hijrah, coinciding with the establishment of the earlier post -islamic dynasties in east and north east of iran. this tradition continued in later islamic periods in two basic rectangular and tomb tower types. the significant point about these buil...

Correspondence to Dr Wolfgang Wagner; [email protected] Visiting Ravenna, this ancient town near the Adriatic Sea in Italy, cannot be called anything but a feast in culture. From AD 402 to AD 476, it was the capital of the Western Roman Empire. The city and its harbour later became the Italian stronghold of the Eastern Roman Empire (Constantinople/Istanbul). No wonder that busloads of tour...