TEHRAN – A restoration project has recently been commenced on the Atiq Mosque in the southern city of Shiraz, CHTN reported.

A credit of 1.24 billion rials (some $30,000) has been allocated to the project that includes partial restoration of the interior and exterior, waterproofing roof coatings, brickwork on the western entrance and the northern porch, plus tilework repairs on the southwest and southeast entrances.

The place of worship was originally built in 875 during the reign of Saffarid ruler Amr ibn al-Layth (r. 879-901) and it was rebuilt, restored, and expanded various times thereafter.

Most of what visitors to the four-iwan mosque can see dates from the seventeenth century onwards.

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