Jajarmi Hosseiniyeh, Bojnurd

🕰️When was it built?

The building was the private house of Haj Ali Akbar Jajarmi, a merchant and a member of parliament for Bojnurd, and dates from the late Qajar era. It was added to Iran's National Heritage List on 7 August 2004 as number 11051 and was later also used as a handicrafts house.

🏛️What was it built for?

The courtyard is at the centre of the house, and the doors, windows and skylights open towards it. In this architecture, daily life centres on the inner space. Besides being a home, the building was tied to religious ceremonies and mourning, and the decoration of the east iwan shows this part of its story.

👀What you will see

• See the entrance vestibule with its shallow arched ceiling; from here you reach the courtyard and the stairs.
• The entrance iwan has muqarnas; notice the small, recessed rows of decoration at its top.
• High on the wall of the east iwan is a stucco inscription in nastaliq script with lines from Mohtasham Kashani's elegy; this inscription has been restored.
• The wooden doors between the rooms and their blind arches are details of the interior; the stone endowment tablet is in the central room.
• The upper floor has a timber-beam ceiling, unlike the shallow arches below; notice the two kinds of roof in the parts you can visit.

🎒Good to know before you go

• Before you go, check whether you can enter the rooms and the upper floor; don't carry on along closed paths to see the ceiling.