Hasht Behesht Ave
Item
- Title
- Hasht Behesht Ave
- Alternative Title
- Hasht Behesht
- خیابان هشت بهشت
- City
- Eşfahān, Eşfahān, Iran
- Address
- Eastern side of Hasht Behesht Palace
- Country
- Iran
- Date Created
- 1669
- Century
- 17th century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Safavid (style)
- Safavid dynasty (period)
- Islamic
- Cultural Context
- Iranian
- Persian
- Subject
- Hasht Behesht Ave
- Isfahan
- boulevard
- green way
- landscape
- Safavid urban planning
- Description
- row of fountains, trees, and other plantings laid out in the median strip
- Located in the center of the Garden of Nightingales (the Bagh-e Bulbul), the Hasht Behesht is one of Isfahan's two surviving Safavid pavilions. Built under Shah Sulaiman some twenty years after the Chihil Sutun, it is quite different in style from the earlier pavilion, although it exhibits the same concern for the interplay of interior and exterior spaces. 'Hasht Behesht' translates as 'Eight Paradises' and refers to a Timurid palace building type consisting of two stories of four corner rooms around a central domed space. In Isfahan, the corner rooms are octagonal, forming massive pillars that define four large openings leading to large porches in the south, east and west, and an iwan in the north. The vault of the central space is detailed with polychrome muqarnas and is capped with a lantern.
- Source
- Saif Haq
- Photographer
- Saif Haq
- Rights Holder
- © Saif Haq
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
“Hasht Behesht Ave”, Saif Haq Collection, accessed November 17, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/haq/item/14112