Taq Kasra, also called the Arch of Ctesiphon, is a monumental arch that once formed the throne hall of the royal palace of the Sasanian kings at Ctesiphon, near the modern town of Salman Pak in Iraq, roughly 35 kilometers southeast of Baghdad on the Tigris River. Scholars date the arch to between the third and sixth centuries AD, with several Sasanian rulers proposed as its builder, and it survives as an exceptional feat of Sasanian engineering, a single large vaulted arch of a scale unmatched by earlier Mesopotamian construction. After the Muslim conquest of the city in 637, the throne hall was briefly used as a mosque, underscoring its monumental status even after the fall of the Sasanian Empire, and today the arch is the most conspicuous surviving structure of Ctesiphon, a symbol of the city's history as a capital of the Parthian and Sasanian empires for more than eight centuries, and it has appeared on Iraqi postage since 1923.
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Taq Kasra, also called the Arch of Ctesiphon, is a monumental arch that once formed the throne hall of the royal palace of the Sasanian kings at Ctesiphon, near the modern town of Salman Pak in Iraq, roughly 35 kilometers southeast of Baghdad on the Tigris River. Scholars date the arch to between the third and sixth centuries AD, with several Sasanian rulers proposed as its builder, and it survives as an exceptional feat of Sasanian engineering, a single large vaulted arch of a scale unmatched by earlier Mesopotamian construction. After the Muslim conquest of the city in 637, the throne hall was briefly used as a mosque, underscoring its monumental status even after the fall of the Sasanian Empire, and today the arch is the most conspicuous surviving structure of Ctesiphon, a symbol of the city's history as a capital of the Parthian and Sasanian empires for more than eight centuries, and it has appeared on Iraqi postage since 1923.
In Style: Sasanian Architecture, Infobox: architecture
Sasanian architecture
Uses Element: Brick, Article text
The bricks were laid about 18 degrees from the vertical which allowed them to be partially supported by the rear wall during construction.
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Wikidata item Q1486703, instance of (P31): Royal Palace (case-merged into the existing atlas casing).
Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 37.0
Wikidata item Q1486703, property P2048 (height): 37.0 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Asuristan, Iraq
Wikidata item Q1486703, property P131/P17 (location): Asuristan, Iraq
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