TEHRAN – Qamsar is a town in central Iran located about 31 kilometers south of Kashan. Qamsar, together with three other smaller towns of Niasar and Barzook in the Esfahan province, are the main producers of rosewater in Iran for well over 800 years. Every year during the second half of May, festival of rose […]

The Anahita Temple is the name of an archaeological site in Iran popularly thought to have been attributed to the ancient deity Anahita. It is located at Kangavar in Kermanshah Province, west of Iran, and is thought to be built by Achaemenian Emperor Ardeshir II (Artaxerxes II), 404 BC to 359 BC. Actually, the Anahita […]

The Sunni Muslims’ mosque in Iran’s western city of Kermanshah, once a pilgrim site in the city, leads up to Javanshir Square on one side and Tarike Bazaar on the next. Built by a couple of Sunni benefactors, the mosque is in some ways inspired by Turkish styles in mosques. Launched in 1945, the religious […]

If you are one of the nature lovers, specially the plants and more specially the decorative flowers, if you always dreamed to have a flower crown or garland, Mahallat County will be the best choice you cannot resist. Polychrome flower gardens, pleasant weather and memorable smells has made Mahalat in Markazi Province as “Holand of […]

TEHRAN –The first phase of a tourist village project in Khansar county, central Isfahan province, came on stream on Tuesday.  The inauguration ceremony was attended by the director of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, Ali-Asghar Mounesan, the governor of Khansar, Seyyed Hassan Shaf’ati, and the provincial tourism chief, Fereydoun Allahyari, amongst other travel […]

The Takyeh (religious building) was founded by Moin Alraaya and was completed by Hassan Khan Moaven al-Molk over 110 years ago in Qajar era. Consisting of 3 parts, Hosseiniyeh, Zeinabiyeh and Abbasiyeh, the compound with its marvelous tiling and matchless architecture comes among the first in the globe. The largest miniature Tekyeh throughout the world, […]

The mosque, dating from the Qajar era, was built by the governor of west named Imam Gholi Mirza Emad-o-doleh in 1868. It holds 4 iwans and a couple of chambers. On the tiling of one iwan, you can see a Qasida, translated as ode, which refers to the king, Naser Aldin Shah, the founder of […]

National Museum of Iran, located in Tehran, aging more than 70 years, and containing 300,000 museum objects in an area more than 20,000 square meters. Is not only the largest museum of History and Archaeology of the country, but ranks as one of the few most prestigious museums of the world in regard to grand […]

 The fascinating Grand Mosque of Yazd is in the southern Iranian province of Yazd and it is depicted on the Iranian 200 rials banknote as a manifestation of Iranian-Islamic architecture. It was built in 12th century at the time of Timurid Empire also known as Gurkani.  

This is one of the best-preserved Qajar-era houses, located in the Fahadan neighborhood in Yazd, which belonged to Haj Muhammad Ibrahim Lari and was built in 1863 or 1864. According to the date on one of the painted decorations in the interior, the construction of this house was completed in 1869 or 1870. This building […]