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Persian Architecture in Photos: Zolfaqari Mansion

Friday, 30 March 2018 06:44 administrator
Persian Architecture in Photos: Zolfaqari Mansion

The two-storey building was made by Asad-ud-Daula Zolfaqari in late Qajar Era. Like traditional Iranian houses, this building has an interior part, which was mostly used by women and servants, and an exterior, which was the public quarters mostly used by men.

A series of tunnels on the ground floor and basement once connected the interior, and exterior to the administrative quarters. The emphasis on symmetrical patterns is an entirely Iranian style, but the shape of the columns and their forms are Gothic.

The building has a dome-shaped octagonal lightwell which is known as the pavilion or Kolah Farangi. The wood plank ceilings of the second floor rooms with the geometrical patterns carved on them are outstanding. The tile-work of the first floor are all in the form of Qajar’s tiling with the famous Lotus pattern.

The twin windows used throughout the building have stained glass decorations. In 2009, the mansion was turned into the Anthropology Museum of Zanjan and today displays some valuable items, the most notable of which are the Salt Men.

Zolfaqari Mansion was inscribed on Iran’s National Heritage List in 1996.

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Baharestan Neighbourhood, Witness to Major Events in Tehran History

Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:30 administrator
Baharestan Neighbourhood, Witness to Major Events in Tehran History

The square is host to several historic buildings and monuments, particularly the National Consultative Assembly, the Old Iranian parliament building, and also the new Iranian parliament.

the Baharestan square has witnessed some of the most important political developments in the contemporary history of Iran.

Among them is the establishment of the National Consultative Assembly during the Constitutional Revolution in 1906, which made Iran the first Asian country with a democratic legislative parliament.

Other big developments are the assassination of Mirza Ali-Asghar Khan Atabak, the former prime minister of Iran, in 1907, the bombardment of the assembly by the Russian Colonel Vladimir Liakhov in 1908, and the 1953 coup against the democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.

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the most renowned Iranian female poet.

Her poetry is themed upon social, humanitarian and mystical concepts, and contains no allusions to romantic love or feminine sentiments.

The historic house, estimated to be 80 years old, has been registered as a national monument.

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also called Ayatollah Motahari Mosque, is one of the oldest and biggest mosques in Tehran and one of the most prestigious Islamic monuments in Iran.

The mosque, which is accompanied by a seminary with the same name, is located at the south-eastern part of Baharestan Square next to the parliament compound.

The mosque is a combination of sophisticated Persian architecture and that of Istanbul’s legendary mosques.

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The Negarestan Garden-Museum, a Qajar era monument in the north of the Baharestan Square, was built as a summer residence for Fathali Shah in 1807.

8220;. It is one of the best and most valuable examples of such Qajar paintings.

which displays works of Qajar era painter Mohammad Ghaffari and his students.

who is known for her mirror mosaics and geometric drawings.

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was built in 1879 by the order of the Qajar prince Massoud Mirza, the son of Nasereddin Shah and the governor of Isfahan, as his residence in the capital.

The complex consists of five buildings: the forum, restaurant, spring house, Seyyed Javadi mansion, and the Moshir-ol-Molk mansion.

It is decorated with beautiful stucco, ceramics, calligraphy, graffiti and in general very exquisite decorations.

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