Falahati (Agricultural) Palace

Falahati (Agricultural) Palace

Falahati (Agricultural) Palace

The palace has five rooms and a rectangular porch. The interior plan of the palace is in the form of two nesting rooms on both sides and a large hall in the middle, which is located in front of a porch, and the doors of the rooms and the hall open to it. The two sides of the rooms are in the form of a regular polygon and there are two porches between them, and there is a window on each side that is decorated with a semicircular arch and plasterwork.

The ceiling of the porch rests on two pillars, the capitals of which are made in the Kufic style. The ceiling of the palace has a rough brick arch with wooden beams and the floor of the palace is paved with bricks. This palace was turned into an agricultural museum of Ilam city in the year 2011.

The museum has 4 display spaces. The first space is used for exhibiting the stone tools of Alikash hill related to the eighth millennium BC, including blades, micro-blades, and abrasives made of flint, obsidian, knocker, and ordinary stone. The other museum spaces are dedicated to the traditional system of cultivation of the region, medicinal herbs, ownership documents of the agricultural plots, and the display of the harvests, respectively.

Name Falahati (Agricultural) Palace
Country Iran
Historical Period1908 CE
ManufacturerGholamreza Khan

Islamic Culture and Communication Organization is one of the Iranian organizations which is affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; and was established in 1995.[More]

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