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Iran In News Ayatollah ’s : Rafsanjani’s Ancestral Home To Be Registered On Manifestation Of Safavid Architecture Nat’l Heritage List sfahan is well known for 11 of the on both the down historic bridges that manifest and the upstream sides provide The paternal home of the late the archeological styles vantage points for the remarkable Head of Expediency Council I evolving during the Safavid era. views. The lower level of the Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Some of these bridges are briefly bridge may be accessed by Rafsanjani is to be registered outlined below: pedestrians and remains a popular on the National Heritage List, Khaju Bridge shady place for relaxing. announced the head of Rafsanjan Khaju Bridge (Pol-e Khaju) Iranian urban architects, Cultural Heritage Department. is arguably the finest bridge in however, note their dismay Hassan Hosseini further said that the province of Isfahan. It was with the recent and modern the ancestral home, which dates built by the Safavid king, Shah renovations that have taken place back to the first Pahlavi era, is Abbas II, around 1650, on the at Khaju Bridge. located in Bahreman, Rafsanjan, foundations of an older bridge, Si-o-Se Pol in the southern province of CHN wrote. Si-o-Se Pol (Bridge With Kerman. He added that the Serving as both a bridge and a 33 Arches), also called the dossier of the ancient house dam, it links the Khaju quarter Allahverdi Khan Bridge, is one is being drawn up. The house on the north bank with the of the most famous landmarks of extends over an area of 1,200 Zoroastrian quarter across the Isfahan. It is ranked as one of the sq.m. and has a built-up area of Zayandeh River. best examples of Safavid bridge 350 sq.m., he added. The house The bridge also served a primary design. is of great importance in terms of function as a building and a Commissioned in 1602 by Shah its architecture, he noted. It has place for public meetings. This Abbas I from his chancellor a great hall surrounded by other structure originally was designed Allahverdi Khan, an Iranian rooms, a wind tower and an old- with artistic Tileworks and ethnic Georgian, it consists of two style kitchen, he concluded. paintings serving as a teahouse. rows of 33 arches. There is a larger Idp Australia To In the center of the structure is base plank at the start of the bridge a pavilion where Shah Abbas where the Zayandeh River flows Conduct Ielts would have once sat, admiring under it, supporting a teahouse. Teacher Training the views. Chubi Bridge Today, remnants of a stone seat Chubi Bridge (Wooden Bridge) Course In Tehran are all that remains of the king’s is one of Isfahan’s oldest bridges. The IDP of Australia is to hold the chair. The bridge highlights one It was built in 1665 during the first ever IELTS Teacher Train of the finest examples of Persian Safavid era. workshop for training on January architecture at the height of The bridge is located between 10-13 in the Iranian capital, it was Safavid cultural influence. Khaju and Ferdowsi bridges. It reported on Monday. According In the words of Upham Pope is 147 meters long and 4 meters to the IDP Education official (an American archeologist wide, with 21 arches. IELTS test center in called and historian of Persian art) It was built during the reign of IRSAFAM, the workshop will and Jean Chardin (a famous Shah Abbas II to irrigate and link be held by an internationally French traveler), Khaju Bridge the gardens on both sides of the recognized teacher trainer. The is “the culminating monument river. course moderator, Anna Hasper, of Persian bridge architecture The bridge and the two parlors is a well-known Teacher Train, and one of the most interesting were exclusively used by the Teacher Development Specialist bridges extant... Where the shah and his courtiers. At present, (TKT, CELTA, YL EX, Delta whole has rhythm and dignity, the parlors are being used as Mod3), E-moderator, materials and combines in the happiest teahouses. writer and education consultant consistency, utility, beauty, and Marnan Bridge in the world. IRSAFAM recreation.”Khaju Bridge has Marnan Bridge is a historical Cultural, Arts Institute is 23 arches and is 105 meters long bridge in Isfahan, Iran. The hosting the workshop for the and 14 meters wide. The passway current structure of the bridge enthusiastic Iranian teachers. of the bridge is 7.5 meters wide, dates back to the Safavid era, Participating instructors will made of bricks and stones with but its foundations are older and get IDP certificates bearing 21 larger and 26 smaller inlet and possibly as old as the Shahrestan signature of top IDP official in the outlet channels.The stone used in bridgeIn accordance with the Middle East. The International this bridge is over 2 meters long available documents the English Language Testing and the distance between every Marnan Bridge was replanned System (IELTS) is the world’s channel and the ceiling base is 21 and constructed by the order of most popular English language meters. The existing inscriptions Khajeh Sarfaraz who was an proficiency test for higher suggest that the bridge was Armenian administrator of the education. repaired in 1873. Armenian district in Isfahan. Khaju is one of the bridges that Museum IRR regulate the water flow in the river This bridge is located in the because there are sluice gates neighborhood of a village Chrhel Sotun 200000 under the archways. When the called by the same name. It Vank Church 200000 sluice gates are closed, the water is a pre-Islamic architecture. Imam Mosque 200000 level behind the bridge is raised Archeologists believe that it Jameh Mosque 200000 to facilitate the irrigation of many was built during Sassanid and Decorative Arts Museum 150000 gardens along the river upstream Achaemenid dynasty. A part Contemporary Art Museum 200000 of this bridge. of brick arches are from Seljuk Currency IRR On the upper level of the bridge, dynasty. At the north part USD 32369 the main central aisle was utilized of the bridge there is a building EUR 34140 by horses and carts, and the from 18th century and was used GBP 39375 vaulted paths on either side of as a toll house. The bridge has 13 CHF 31816 pedestrians. arches, about 140 meters long and Octagonal pavilions in the center 4.5 meters wide.