Published about 3 years ago by Mahmood Hamidi
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Quran Gate (or Darvazeh Ghor-an), the ancient gated entrance to Shiraz from north. Karim Khan added a room at the top of the gateway to house a holy...(more)
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The famous poet Saadi's (Sadi, Sa-di) Mausoleum. Marble tomb dates from 1860s, an octagonal shaped building, walls inscribed with Saadi work in...(more)
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Private house of the court governor of Fars province in Ghajar period. This is part of a compound consisting of an administrative bu...(more)
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Private house of the court governor of Fars province in Ghajar period. This is part of a compound consisting of an administrative building ...(more)
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Vakil bath house (Hamam Vakil) has been an old public bath house built during the Zand dynasty in second half of 18th century. Here is the ent...(more)
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The mosque's Shabestan (evening prayer hall) with an area of 2700 sq.m. contains 48 simillar tall pillars of stone with a beautiful ceiling and a marble...(more)
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Built 1751-1773 during the Zand Dyansty, is the most impressive building of the Vakil buildings. The mosque, like other Karim Khan Zand structures, is so...(more)
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Naisr al Mulk mosque is a traditional mosque with one of the most beautiful tile works and architecture typical from the Ghajar era with extensive colored glass wrok in its decoration. The mosque was built 1888.
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Young men and women relaxing at night in Shiraz during the holy month of Ramadan, sitting with a glass of well earned chai and a water pipe of tobac...(more)
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Temporary Text This is the Siavash Fallahi School in Fasa, a medium sized town south of Shiraz. Siavash Fallahi. a successful engineer and businessma...(more)
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This old fellow in the cloth bazaar in Shiraz has twigged me, but is the look approving or otherwise? It always seems strange to me that the bazaars a...(more)
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A spice shop in a Shiraz bazaar. Iranian use lots of herbs and spices in their cooking but seldom chilli hot spices instead those for delicate aromas ...(more)
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Kanakan is a small village in southern iran East and a little South of the town of Fasa. (I would be obliged if someone sent me the map coordinates because ...(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Kanakan is a small village in southern iran East and a little South of the town of Fasa. (I would be obliged if someone sent me the map coordinates because ...(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Kanakan is a small village in southern iran East and a little South of the town of Fasa. (I would be obliged if someone sent me the map coordinates ...(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Kanakan is a small village in southern iran East and a little South of the town of Fasa. (I would be obliged if someone sent me the map coordinates because ...(more)
Published almost 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Kanakan is a small village in southern iran East and a little South of the town of Fasa. (I would be obliged if someone sent me the map coor...(more)
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Persipolis, the ancient seat of kings of the Persian Empire, and named for Jamsheed Shah. Situated between modern day Shiraz and...(more)
Published about 4 years ago by Mark Schuster
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Persepolis - well that's a Greek name - in Iran it is better known as Takta Jamsheed (the throne of Jamsheed). It is the ancient ...(more)
