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Haft Tanan garden

stone museum

Haft Tanan garden or stone museum
This garden was built before Zand period and its building ws built by the order of Karim Khan Zand, which is is located near to the Chehel Maqam Mountain in the north of Hafez mausoleum.
This garden was named Haft tanan due to the presence of the graves of seven wise persons.
Karim Khan Zand installed stones without inscription on their graves.
This garden was named Stone Museum because ancient inscriptions and historical stones are displayed in this museum. These stone inscriptions belong to the 3rd to 11th centuries AD. Which wrere decorated by the variety of scripts including Kufic, Thuluth, Nasta’liq-e-Diwani, To’qie, Tal’iq and Naskh.
There are cedar, pine and orange trees in Haft Tanan garden.
There is a big mansion in Haft Tanan garden. There is a very large hall with two stone columns in the northern part of the second floor.

There are five scenes which are painted on the plaster in Zand period such as: one person( dervish) with battle axe, Moses figure , the picture of Sheikh Sanan and Daughter Teresa, the figure of Abraham and the scene of the sacrifice of Esmail,
the picture of Shah Abbas Safavi.

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