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The Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is a smaller mosque consisting of a single domed room. This mosque, again, was built during the reign of Shah Abbas and is situated on the outside of the Imam Square. This mosque was constructed between 1602 to 1619. According to Bloom and Blair, the mosque is named after “Shaykh Lutfallah Maysi al-Amili, a distinguished scholar and teacher who came to Isfahan at Abbas’s request and took up residence on the site“ (Bloom, p. 312). Surprisingly enough, the mosque was also once known as the Women’s Mosque because of the tunnel which allowed women to travel from the Ali Qapu Palace to the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque to participate in prayers without being seen.