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Minar Jonban-The minaret that can shake


Minar Jonban-The minaret that can shake
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Copyright: Fariba M M Sadeghi (charmante) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 423 W: 50 N: 143] (1053)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-03-30
Categories: Architecture
Exposure: f/3.2
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Travelogue: Esfahan Trip
Date Submitted: 2007-04-08 5:55
Viewed: 544
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
It's one of the two minarets on top of the monument, located in 7 km west of Esfahan, which is a tomb in fact. Tomb of a great pious & godly person named "Amoo Abud-llah", living about 7 centuries ago.The minarets are added to the building 3 centuries later, during Safavid Era, their importance is for their shaking, which is made by a physics effect called "resonance".If someone shakes one of'em, the other begins to shake as well. There are other shaking minarets in other pars of the world such as Iraq & Saudi Arabia, but the difference is that here all the building shakes too, & u can understand it shake because of the sound of jinglers hanging from the other minaret!
Many engineers have found this building "very exquisite", & tried to find out the reason of this shaking, but the ruslt of this "research" was that they damaged the shaking system & now only one of the two is "shakable"!
The height of its base from the ground level is 10 metres & the minarets are 7.5 metres high each.
The wooden beams sticking out of it are used for the architectural system.
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A wonderful mosque, resistant to earthquakes. Good composition but a rotation needed I think.
Erhan

Welcome back Fariba...Trekearth missed you!!
nice picture to re-entering with..
i like your composition and note
thanks God you are back:)
keep it up
best of luck
love
mugush

I also think this would look better vertical. Good photo of the minaret in sunlight,showing the scale.

Hi Fariba. Nice shot indeed of this shaking minar along with an informative note. Well, you could have attempted another angle to shoot from so that the minar looks straight.But overall colour management is also great. REgards.
Partha

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