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On one of my trips to Chenaran I visited the tower and the Radkan Historical Observatory, which was a good day.
I hope that humans will appreciate their past and their previous culture, as well as to create a rich culture for the future.
name:
Radkan Shrine Tower
Country:
Iran
State:
Razavi Khorasan Province
City:
Chenaran city
Effect info Reader :
Tomb, tower
Registration information
Registration number:
146
National Registration Date
Jan. 06, 1932
The height of the tower is 35 meters, its inner diameter is 14 meters and its outer diameter is 20 meters.
The outer appearance of the building is 2.5 meters high in 12-sided form and from there up to the bottom of the dome is 36 half-column abutments.
The Radkan Tower has a cone-shaped dome whose building probably finished in the 607th Lunar. The date of the construction of the Radkan Tower is Max. Ephron, the German for the year 600, and Andy and Hertzfeld in 680. Herzfeld considers the tower as the tomb of one of the Mongol rulers, some of whom are considered Mughal emperor Arghoun. The French overseas gardener considers it a tomb of a woman and knows it well from the works of Deylamies. In addition to the guidance of the passengers and the tomb, due to the number of openings in the number of twelve gates, some for the tower of the function of calendars and astronomy also.
Radkan Tower, at its peak, was the only determinant of the season, year, and Nowruz in the world.
Rajkan is located 74 km north of Mashhad and 26 km northwest of Chenaran. The Radkan tower, 25 meters high, with a cylindrical body and a conical dome, is a historical trace of the seventh century AH. The external appearance of the building is up to three meters in the form of a 12-sided, and then below the dome with 36 turtles or half-cylinders and inside it is octagonal.