Eqlīd

Eqlid lies in the highlands of northern Fars, where springs and streams water a fertile plain between the Zagros and the central desert. Medieval geographers described it as a walled town with running water, a mosque and grain-growing land. The Friday mosque preserves a wooden inscription recording repairs in 1445–46 and a carved pulpit dated to 1599–1600. These traces of successive work show the continuing care given to the mosque in a town on the routes between the mountains and the interior plateau.