Icehouses - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Icehouses - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Jorgensen, Hemming

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062245
Doc. NO	:	ALei2642
Main Entry	:	Jorgensen, Hemming
Title & Author	:	Icehouses - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Jorgensen, Hemming
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,005 words)
Abstract	:	Icehouses (Pers., yakhchāl or yakhdān , “ice pit”) were a feature of Iranian vernacular architecture. They are believed to have developed from covered earth pits in the first millennium B.C.E. to roofed structures in the eleventh/seventeenth century. They continued to be used until the late 1960s when they became replaced by modern refrigeration. Illustration 1. Domed icehouse at Abarqūh, Yazd province, Iran. View from west, dome and shading walls for ice-making basins. The height of the dome is 17 metres. Photograph courtesy of Hemming Jorgensen. Icehouses are
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2642.pdf