The Mosque of Shaykh Lutfallah, as seen through the slender vertical supports of the balcony of the \u27Ali Qapu (an audience hall to an official tribune (190), originally begun by the Safavid ruler \u27Abbas and situated opposite the Lutfallah mosque in the maidan). The mosque sits on the eastern side of the maidan (see description of B02.051 for an account of the maidan), and is small but exquisite. The building is unique among Safavid mosques: it comprises a single domed room (19 meters on a side) surrounded by service areas and resting on another room of almost the same dimensions, covered with low vaults resting on four octagonal piers. The building lacks such standard accoutrements of mosques as a court, side galleries, iwans, or m...