Borujerdi House

🕰️When was it built?

According to the inscription around the hall, the house dates from 1292 AH (1875). Its architect was Master Ali Maryam Kashani; the inner courtyard took seven years to build and the main hall eleven. The house is registered on the List of National Monuments of Iran under number 1083.

🏛️What was it built for?

The owner was Seyyed Hassan Natanzi, a merchant who travelled to Borujerd so often that he was called Borujerdi. The house has outer and inner sections, courtyards, summer and winter quarters and large basements, and today it houses Kashan's cultural heritage office.

👀What you will see

• The matching wind towers above the hall, beside the domed pavilion in the middle of the roof, give the house its familiar shape.
• The paintings and stucco of the house were made under the direction of Sani' al-Molk, the Qajar court's chief painter and uncle of Kamal al-Molk.
• The southern part of the house has a three-storey cellar.

💡Something interesting

The story goes that Seyyed Hassan fell in love with the daughter of Seyyed Jafar Tabatabaei, a great carpet merchant, and her father's condition was that he first build a house like his own. This house is the result of that condition, and the Tabatabaei House is less than 200 metres away.

🎒Good to know before you go

• The Tabatabaei House and the Abbasian House are in the same quarter; you can see all three on foot in one visit.