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==Architecture of the Cellar== | ==Architecture of the Cellar== | ||
[[File:پنجره چوبی سرداب غیبت.jpg|Thumbnail|A wooden window from the 7th century AH]] | |||
The Cellar of Occultation is a small chamber measuring 2 by 1.5 meters, located underground and connected to the ground floor of the building by a staircase of twenty steps. | The Cellar of Occultation is a small chamber measuring 2 by 1.5 meters, located underground and connected to the ground floor of the building by a staircase of twenty steps. | ||
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In this chamber, there was a very exquisite wooden door that bore inscriptions written in Naskh script. The door is lattice-designed and has two panels, and according to its inscriptions, it was made in the year 606 AH by order of the Abbasid caliph al-Nāsir li-Dīn Allah—who followed the Shia creed—and under the supervision of Abu Tamim Ma‘add ibn Husayn ibn Sa‘d al-Mūsawi (d. 617 AH).<ref>Ṣāḥibī, " Waqf-i Mīrāth-i Jāwidān. “Bāb Ghiybat dar Sāmarrā ", p. 86.</ref> | In this chamber, there was a very exquisite wooden door that bore inscriptions written in Naskh script. The door is lattice-designed and has two panels, and according to its inscriptions, it was made in the year 606 AH by order of the Abbasid caliph al-Nāsir li-Dīn Allah—who followed the Shia creed—and under the supervision of Abu Tamim Ma‘add ibn Husayn ibn Sa‘d al-Mūsawi (d. 617 AH).<ref>Ṣāḥibī, " Waqf-i Mīrāth-i Jāwidān. “Bāb Ghiybat dar Sāmarrā ", p. 86.</ref> | ||
This door is no longer in the cellar and, according to a report, it is kept in the storage of the shrine of the Two Askari Imams. | This door is no longer in the cellar and, according to a report, it is kept in the storage of the shrine of the Two Askari Imams.<ref></ref> | ||
Around the chamber, there is also a band inscription in Kufic script containing salutations upon the Fourteen Infallibles. | Around the chamber, there is also a band inscription in Kufic script containing salutations upon the Fourteen Infallibles. | ||