Hasht Bihisht Palace
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Title
Hasht Bihisht Palace
Hasht Behesht
eight heavens (in Persian)
هشت بهشت
Agent
Unknown Persian architect
Location
Eşfahān, Eşfahān, Iran
Eastern side of Chahar Bagh-e Abbasi St
32°39'13.4"N 51°40'12.7"E
Date
1669
17th century
Style Period
Safavid (style)
Safavid dynasty (period)
Islamic
Cultural Context
Iranian
Persian
Worktype
palace
pavilion
Material
brick
wood
marble
Technique
vaulting
wood frame
Subject
Architecture and City Planning
Hasht Behesht Palace
Isfahan
pavilion
Persian garden
water pond
Description
partial view
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.
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© Saif Haq
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ID
Haq0557
Source
Saif Haq
Collection
Citation
architect, Unknown Persian, Hasht Bihisht Palace, 1669, Eşfahān, Eşfahān, Iran, TTU Arch Design Images. Image Source: Saif Haq. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/18484.
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