Bazaars are important axes of cities in Iran, which have witnessed important political, cultural, economic, and religious events during the history. Traditional bazaars consist of shops, caravansaries, mosques, bathhouses, and water reservoirs. This highlights the role of bazaars as not only centers for business transactions, but also social hubs where you can feel a vibrant vitality from sunrise to the sunset. Bazaars were the main connection channels of the city connecting money, goods and people, but they were also locales for communicating, exchanging the news and making announcements orally. Therefore, bazaars were typically built at the most important areas of the cities.&nbs...

Pleasing in its simplicity, this is a five-story mosque with 200 years of history. Haj Mohammad Taqi Khanban commissioned the construction of this school to house the preaching sessions carried out by Mullah Mahdi Naraqi II, known as Agha Bozorg. Construction of the mosque was started in 1834, in Mohammad Shah Qajar’s era, and finished in Naser al-din shah’s era (1848- 1895).

This showcase of Iranian-Islamic art is thought to have been the prototype for symmetric architecture. The portal is accompanied by two stone benches which were used as resting places for passersby. The inscription above the portal points out the tax exemption of the mosque in the order of Mohammad Shah ...