Iranian-Islamic Architecture

The historical palace of Ali Qapu in Iran’s Isfahan province dates back to the beginning of the eleventh century AH and is unique in its architectural and decorative arts.

Mahyar caravanserai is one of the excellent and prominent examples of Safavid architecture style, which is decorated with brickwork, plaster crown molding and tiling.

The city of Garmsar is known as “the island of tribes” due to the presence of five great and important Iranian ethnic groups there.

Work got underway in 2002 to construct a portico at Imam Reza’s holy shrine in the city of Mashhad in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorassan Razavi.

The historical city of Yazd in central Iran is the world’s largest adobe town.

The Silk House is one of the most fantastic historical houses in the city of Tabriz in northeastern Iran.

The Imam or Soltani Mosque in Semnan city, in eastern Tehran, is one of the most important and beautiful historical sites of Iran’s central region.

The Golestan Palace is the former royal Qajar complex located in Iran's capital city, Tehran.

The Takieh of Moaven-ul-Molk in western Iranian city of Kermanshah is the country's finest Hosseinieh, a distinctively Shiite shrine where plays are acted out during the Islamic month of Muharram to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the third Shiite Imam.

The Marble Palace in Ramsar is one of the historic buildings and royal residences located in Ramsar, a city on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Mazandaran province.

Chehel Sotoun is one of Iran’s most famous historical monuments dating back to the Safavid era.

The Time Museum is a historical house in an upscale Tehran neighbourhood and dates back to the Qajar era.

The Rangooniha Mosque is one of Iran’s most invaluable mosques with a completely different architecture.

The historical Nasser-ad-Din-Mirza House is one of two dome-shaped monuments in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Alleys in the city of Bushehr in the southern Iranian Bushehr province smell of spring.

The Four Seasons (Chahar Fasl) Bathhouse, which used to be the largest bathhouse of Iran, is located in the city of Arak in Markazi province, central Iran.

An Iranian female artist builds miniature replicas of traditional Iranian houses in a way that no one can believe they are not real.

The small ponds or pools known as howz, once an integral part of houses in Iran, are among the wonders of the Persian architecture.

The Grand Mosque of Neyriz is one of Iran’s oldest mosques and, based on some historical evidence, used to be a Zoroastrian fire temple which turned into a mosque during the Islamic era.

Ashraf Hall is a Safavid-era palace which has turned into a prominent attraction in the historical city of Isfahan, central Iran.

The Grand Mosque of Qaen is an 1000-year-old architectural masterpiece in eastern Iran.

Tabatabaei House is a prominent epitome of Persian Architecture, located in the historical city of Kashan, central Iran.

Moghadam Museum is a historical house in Tehran which contains many priceless historical objects.

The historical Haj-Qoli-Khan house is one of the ancient homes in the central Iranian city of Qom.

Muqarnas is a kind of ornamented work in Iranian architecture and has contributed to the evolution of some forms of art.