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News ID: 44465
Publish Date : 22 September 2017 - 21:37

Asef Vaziri Mansion Stands Out in Sanandaj




TEHRAN (VisitoIran) – Asef Vaziri Mansion named "Kurdish house" as a symbol of Kurds tribe's cultural identity is the most valuable cultural relics of the city of Sanandaj, west of Iran.
The original building of edifice construction contains the most parts of  northern side which includes the ceremonial hall, rooms and corridors parties and some parts of the eastern spaces is related to the Safavid era and the other parts or components have been added in the Qajar and Pahlavi periods.
Motamed Hashemiha's family (Amjad al-Ashraf) is known as the founder of this building and probably Mirza Mohammad Reza Vaziri (Asif Divan's father) owned it.
The edifice gained its final magnificence by constructing the entrance (with a brick facade on the Iranian Baroque style) and eastern and western parts of it during Asef Divan period.
The cultural heritage organization of Kurdistan considered the management of this building in 1997 and it’s reopened as the biggest anthropology museum relates to one tribe in Iran in 2003.
Stucco, old sashes, carved stones, mirror decoration, carved brick and embowed arches are reflected skillfully and beautifully in this building.
In addition to the building entrance and the entrance corridor, aqueducts and dividing water room, has four gates that they are known as the outer courtyard (main), inner courtyard, kitchen garden and  employees yard.
In the southwest corner of edifice, a specific bath was built in the architectural style of Iranian bath with lime designs.
Today, a part of the southern part of this building turned to gallery and the other part has become traditional tea house by roofed this part of the building with brick domes and refurbished the main pool and build the porch around it.