Golestān Palace is the remnant of the historic citadel of Tehran, which dates back to the Safavid period, and the Zandiyeh and Fatḥ-Ali Shah Qajar. But because of extensive repairs by Nasser al-Din Shah in 1905, most of the buildings in this complex are regarded to be from the Nasseri era. Golestān Palace was the residence of the Qajar kings and the country’s administrative heart whose architec...

As one of the oldest cities in Iran, Hamedan is thousands of years old. The oldest houses in Hamedan date back to the time of the Ashkaneniads. Archeological excavations discovered in the 1990s, the remnants of these houses in Hegmataneh hill. Houses belonging to the era before the Qajar dynasty are rare in Hamedan. However, there are plenty of architectural structures belonging to the Qajar er...

Introduction: The Transparency is a basic principle in Iranian architecture that has reached prosperity during the time. Isfahan is an important city in architecture because it has been as the political capital in the two important periods. So many valuable buildings have been built in these periods that the houses are more important between them.   Literature review: The architecture was m...

During the Qajar era in the Kermanshah city, as an important city and the center of the government eldest son of Naseroddin shah, Mohammad Ali Mirza has made spectacular monuments including mosques with beautiful and special decorative features. In this study, an attempt was made, focusing on two mosques Dolatshah and Haj Shhbazkhan, the most important religious monuments of this period in Kerm...

Although Nastaliq script was used as a significant writing style along other six types of calligraphy until the mid-Safavid era, it was gradually more welcomed and turned into the most important script in the succeeding eras. "Rashida Shahnameh", written by Abdul Rashid Deylami, falls within the Shahnameh manuscripts in the Safavid era while "Davari Shahnameh", written by Mirza Mohammad Davari ...

Royal Portraiture is one of the last Iranian miniature styles which more or less can be considered a Synthesis Style of Iranian and European elements. This style was inspired by Westernization, but underwent important changes during the Qajar era. In this research, one tries to analyze and interpret one of its ruptures that occurred in the era of Mohammad Shah. The main issue of the present pro...

European tourists in their reports from Guilan in the Qajar era, also have addressed the issue of health and deadly diseases affecting lives of people, such as rice fever, malaria, cholera, and plague in addition to pointing out the numerous social tragedies. From these tourists’s point of view, the weather conditions, geographical location, livelihood and some living and social habits and beha...