Chehel Sotoun

Chehel Sotoun

Also known as Forty Columns

Year

1647

Type

building

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Chehel Sotoun is a Safavid garden pavilion built in 1647 for Shah Abbas II as a setting for royal receptions, diplomatic audiences, and court entertainment, where architecture, water, and dynastic painting do the staging together. A reflect …

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