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Bagh-i Fin

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Creator(s)
Iranian
Time period
creation date: 16th century
Location
Site: Kashan (Iran)
Cultural context
Iranian
Description
The six and a half acre garden in Fin, a suburb outside Kashan, captures the Soleimaniyeh spring and directs it into a geometric layout of watercourses and pools, framing various small buildings and garden plots. Although a garden was in place much earlier, the standing buildings are from the Safavid and Qajar periods. Safavid constructions include the exterior wall and monumental entrance portal, the central pavilion, and a small bathhouse - famed as the site of Amir Kabir's murder. A larger bathhouse and a library were built during the Qajar period.
Source: Archnet
interior, view of the central pavilion, with pool, 1999
Work type
Garden
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Rights
(c) MIT Libraries, Aga Khan Visual Archive,photograph by Khosrow Bozorgi
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All rights reserved
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