Rahimabad Garden and Mansion

🕰️When was it built?

Its exact date is not known, and the garden and mansion are attributed to the Zand, Qajar or Pahlavi eras. The garden was added to the National Heritage List on 11 June 2000 as number 2707, and after a period of restoration it reopened in 2022.

🏛️What was it built for?

The mansion's three large halls were used for receiving guests and for ceremonies. The complex was more than its halls: it also had a pool room, a tea room, a caretaker's house and the garden. Green space and a ceremonial building side by side were part of how life and hospitality worked here.

👀What you will see

• The hall windows and doors have latticework in arabesque designs and arched parts, with coloured glass set between them.
• In the halls, mirror work and stucco sit beside muqarnas; if the inside is open, look up at the tops of the walls too.
• The three large halls were the mansion's main reception spaces, and their decoration is best seen together with the windows.
• Pine and white poplar trees, with fruit trees such as apricot and barberry, make up the green part of the garden.

🎒Good to know before you go

• Before you go, ask whether the halls can be visited.
• To see the patterns of the coloured glass, watch the light through the windows from inside the hall, and don't touch the decoration.