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| Monday, 10-Apr-2006 12:07 |
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Iranian traditional musical instruments museum
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OK my friend!!!!
SO YOU CAN't WAIT???
Here you are i hope this entry could be statisfied you
For more information look at this website ...
http://www.dejkam.com/music/iran_traditional/instruments/
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| Monday, 10-Apr-2006 02:16 |
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Lout Desert - Shahdad
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DASH -E LUT (Lout Desert)
This region of eastern Iran is an arid, wind-blown desert, completely surrounded by mountains. In the summer months, it can be one of the hottest and driest spots on the planet. In some areas here rain has not been measured.
Enjoy visiting Lout desert, the most attractive desert in the world.
A trip to the uncharted desert and the fantastic “city” of the Kalouts is a special treat, cherished even by native Iranians. You will experience the walk among the fantasy-land structures carved out of sand hills trough eons of the blowing desert winds. You will let yourself roll down the soft sand hills, see the Nebka’s (the flower pots of the desert), the incongruent citrus gardens in the heart of the desert and old fortresses. You will experience the historic cities of Kerman, Mahan and their surrounding villages, and visit the lush green Bagh-e Shazdeh (Prince Garden) known as the “Paradise of the Desert”. The inner tranquility that will decent upon you by spending a night or two under the dark and starry skies of Shahdad, in the heart of the Iranian Kavir surrounded by the deep silence of the desert, will add so much more to the pleasures of your trip to.
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| Sunday, 9-Apr-2006 02:44 |
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Other attractions in Kerman
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Kerman, the capital of Kerman Province, located in an altitude of 1, 860 m above sea level and 1,062 km to the south of Tehran, is a wonderful place. Unless one travels to Kerman by air, it seems a very long way from any other center of importance, no matter whether one approaches it from the northwest, the southwest or the southeast.
Modern Kerman is connected to all such centers by air (daily flights), railway and first-class asphalt roads, on Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Zahedan routes. The train station is 4 km southwest of Kerman and the airport is also southwest, but the bus station (terminal) is in the south.
The town is situated close to the wastes of Dasht-e Lut, from which it is separated by a range of mountains. Its name is probably derived from the tribe of Germanioi listed by Herodotus. Believed to have been founded in the early 3rd century AD by Ardashir I, founder of the Sassanian dynasty, it was from the 7th century ruled in turn by the Arabs, by Buyids, the Seljuks, the Turkmans and the Mongols. But it did not become famous for its carpets until long after the time of Marco Polo (who mentions only the skill of local leather workers, silk embroiderers and armoreres in 1271), for the town expanded rapidly under the Safavids in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both the English and Dutch exporting Kermani carpets from the port of Bandar Abbas.
Kerman has had a long and turbulent history, and it has only for short spells enjoyed peace and prosperity at the same time. Late in the 18th century AD, Agha Mohammad Shah of Qajar dynasty took a terrible vengeance on the people of Kerman because they had given help to his mortal enemy Luft Ali Khan Zand. The town has a Zoroastrian minority, altogether much smaller than that in Yazid.
The pistachio, grown principally in the Rafsanjan-Kerman area, is the most popular nut in Iran, though walnuts, almonds, and hazel nuts are also eaten; so too is melon seed, which has first to be adroitly split with the teeth to extract the edible kernel. A variety of nuts, seeds and dried fruits, known collectively as ajil are eaten before and after meals and particularly in Iranian parties.
Most of the ancient Kerman was destroyed in 1794 earthquake, and the modern Kerman radiates from two squares (Azadi and Shari’ati), and all the monuments of interest lie between these two,
Gonbad-e Jabalieh (also known as the Gonbad-e Gabri and Jabal-e Sang) is an enormous tower standing quite on its own on the north side of Shohada Avenue, toward Masjid-e Saheb oz-Zaman, just beyond the eastern end of Kerman. It is of octagonal design and comprises three floors crowned by a rather flat dome, totally empty inside. It appears to predate the 2nd millennium AD and may have been a Zoroastrian building, and is remarkable because of being constructed of stone rather than the more usual brick. The inside of this building is a stone museum now. To get there, take a shared taxi from Shohada Square. The rocky outcrops over looking the Martyrs’ Cemetery just south-east of the Gonbad-e Jabalieh, offer a fine outlook over Kerman, if only you manager to climb to the top. It has been repaired during the first decades of the advent of Islam in Iran.
http://www.iranchamber.com/geography/articles/carmania.php
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| Saturday, 8-Apr-2006 15:08 |
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Behind of this Fotopage
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| Saturday, 8-Apr-2006 11:51 |
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Ganjalikhan Bathhouse - Kerman
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Ganjali Khan was one of the famous rulers during the reign of Shah Abbas. As the ruler of Kerman province he constructed many monuments and buildings. Ganjali Khan complex is composed of a school, a square, a caravanseray, a public bath, a water reservoir, a mint house, a mosque and a bazaar. A number of inscriptions laid inside the complex indicate the exact date when these places have been built.
Out of Ganjali Khan complex, the Khan public bath located in the grand bazaar of Kerman serves as an anthropology museum today and attracts an increasing number of Iranian and foreign tourists. This is a unique work of architecture with beautiful tile works, paintings, stuccos, and arches.
The bath rendered service no later than 60 years ago. In the closet section and main yard of the bath there are many statues which are unbelievably interesting. These statues were designed at Tehran University`s faculty of fine arts in 1973 and then transferred to this museum.
This complex has been built during the Safavid era (1499 - 1723 AD) enjoying a modern architectural style of the time. This bath is an association of architecture and application of an array of constructional materials in an appropriate space with totally popular approaches. The architect of the bath and the complex is a master from Yazd city named Mohammad Sultani.
http://nasiriphotos.com/pan/pankermanbath.htm
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| Wednesday, 5-Apr-2006 11:45 |
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Kerman's Grand Bazar
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The extensive Regent’s Bazaar, constructed of beautiful and well-preserved brick, much of it from the Safavid period, is largely of interest for its architecture rather than for the range of goods, although there are a few metalwork shops selling brass trays and the like noisily hammered into shape on site. Built by Mohammad Ismail Khan, Vakil ol-Molk, who was an energetic governor of Kerman from 1859 to 1866, the Vakil caravansary with its attractively tiled walls, adjoins the main Vakil Bazaar.
The caravansary provides office accommodation for bazaar merchants. The two handsome "chimneys" are in fact wind towers (bad-girs), which are a common feature of Kerman, Yazd, and other desert towns of Iran. Cool air was drawn down to basement rooms which were used during the scorching summer months. The temperature in these rooms is between 20 to 30 degrees cooler than in those above ground in summer.
Perhaps the most enchanting corner of Kerman bazaar is the entrance to the Ebrahim Khan Madraseh and Bath House (hamman). Built in 1816-17 by a cousin and son-in-law of Fath Ali Shah, Ebrahim Khan, who was the governor of Kerman from 1802 to 1824, the entrance portals are decorated with gay tilework, whose designs include peacocks, water fowl, flowers and calligraphic inscriptions. The interior of both buildings is worth their entrances. The tiled and single-story Madraseh is built round a peaceful, cypress-shaded courtyard, while the walls of hamman are decorated with amusing painting said to date from the end of the 18th century. There is a traditional and very atmospheric tea house inside the Vakil Bazaar, which is called the Ghahveh Khaneh Sonnati
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| Tuesday, 4-Apr-2006 18:13 |
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Kerman's Adryan ( Fire temple)
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Fire temple as an institution for housing a constantly burning fire goes back to the time of legendary Pishdadian king, Houshang (Hoshang).
Ferdowsi’s ShahNameh (Epic of kings) relates how for the first time a man made fire came to be in times of antiquity. Thereby the early man that Houshang’s generation represented found a source of heat and light that empowered them to have more control over their environment. Without any means of readily producing it (in ancient times), a fire was kept at a central location constantly ablaze. From that central fire households would draw the fire they needed for cooking or heating their homes, and so the institution of fire temple came to be, dating back to early Indo-Iranians. In time fire temples came to serve as libraries, hostels, and even as medical centers, and the people who maintained the fire temples came to wield great influence, respect and to possess knowledge.
The tradition of fire temple was already well woven into the social fabric of the Iranian branch of Indo-Europeans by the time of Zarathushtra. Fire temples were adapted into the Zoroastrian religion, and served as center of most religion activities. In some areas of the land with warmer climate, open air fire temples were in use.
When the Achaeminians established world’s first empire over the near East, southern Europe and North Africa, the median priesthood, known as Magi, was absorbed into Zoroastrianism and in time came to have a defining influence Zoroastrian priesthood. Much of the purity laws governing, the fire temples was due to the influence of the Magi.
The institution of fire temple and the ritual fire it houses has since become an integral part of the Zoroastrian religion practices. Fire temples could be found all over ancient Iran, most of them fueled by wood. However, there are traces of ancient fires that used natural gas as fuel. One notable example was the Azar Goshnāsp temple located in the Azerbaijan province of Iran, that served as a site of pilgrimage for the Sassanian royalty.[ii]
With the fall of Iran to Arab invaders forcing their ********************, and **********hold in Iran, many of the fire temples were *************converted to mosques. Coming down to the 21st century, only a small number of fire temples still stand in the land that gave rise to them.
The current site housing the fire temple of Kerman used by less than 2000 remaining adherents of the Zoroastrian religion in that ancient Iranian city was dedicated for that purpose in early 20th century. [iii] An older temple built at that site houses a wood burning fire.
In early 21st century a new temple was inaugurated in the same complex where the older temple is located. The two temples are within 350 meters of each other. The new fire temple is fueled by natural gas, and came about as a result of a generous donation by a Kermani Zartoshty. The structure was built with Kermani marble stones. The new temple was inaugurated with great festivity as Zoroastrians from all over Iran merged on Kerman to be a part of that event
http://www.vohuman.org/SlideShow/KermanModernTemple/The%20New%20Fire%20Temple%20of%20Kerman.htm
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/FireTemple.htm
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| Monday, 3-Apr-2006 11:08 |
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Kerman
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| Sunday, 2-Apr-2006 05:36 |
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The mausoleum of Shah Nur od-Din Nematollah(Mahan-Kerman)
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The mausoleum is the burial place of Shah Nur od-Din Nematollah Vali. He was the founder of the Nematollah order of dervishes. Dervishes are a special kind of Muslim, very religious and very peaceful.
To become a Dervish you should go through a ritual of fasting. Aspirant dervishes lock themselves up in a very small room. For 40 days they keep themselves to one date and one drop of water a day. With such a ritual, we don't think there are many fat dervishes
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| Saturday, 1-Apr-2006 20:32 |
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Shazdeh garden - Mahan (Kerman)
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This palace and its gardens are known under the name of Bagh-é Shahzadeh. It dates from the Qajar period (19th century) and was used as the summer palace of Prince Abdul Hussein Farmanfarma. The gardens are a delight, all those fountains make us thinks of the Generalife in the Alhambra in Granada.
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