Amir Chakhmaq Complex

Amir Chakhmaq Complex
مجموعه میدان امیرچخماق
General information
Type	Caravanserai
Architectural style	Timurid Empire
Location	Yazd, Yazd Province, Iran
Coordinates	31°53′38″N 54°22′10″E / 31.893812°N 54.369466°E / 31.893812; 54.369466
Construction started	Timurid Empire
Client	Jalal ed-Din Amir Chakhmaq Shami

The Amir Chakhmaq Complex (Persian: مجموعه میدان امیرچخماق, romanized: Majmūʿa Meydân Amir Čaqmaq; also Romanized Chakhmaq, Chakmaq, Chakhmagh, Chakmak) is a prominent structure in Yazd, Iran, noted for its symmetrical sunken alcoves.^[1] It is a mosque located on a square of the same name. It also contains a caravanserai, a tekyeh, a bathhouse, a cold water well, and a confectionery.^[2] At night, the building is lit up after twilight hours after sun set with orange lighting in the arched alcoves which makes it a spectacle.^[3] During the Iran–Iraq War and the Iraq wars with the United States and Afghanistan, many Iraqis and Afghanis came to inhabit the Amir Chakhmaq Square.^[2]