Aliqapu Palace (Music Hall)

Isfahan, Iran · Architecture, 46 of 71

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01 The photograph

Aliqapu Palace (Music Hall), Isfahan

Place: Isfahan, Iran
Gallery: Architecture 46 / 71
Photograph: Mohammadreza Domiri Ganji
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02 The place

Aliqapu Palace (Music Hall)

this shows the plaster ceiling of the music room of Aliqapu palace,

There is a hall in the last floor of this 6 floor palace called “the music hall”. This hall takes its name for the peculiar Stucco shaped as porcelain jars in its ceiling which produces a strong echo and reflection of sounds in the hall resulting in a louder music in the palace.

Everything is red in this hall,the ceiling,ground and walls.

The Stucco and ornamentations of this hall have a strong resemblance to those of Sheikh Safieddin's house.

03 In his words

Making the photograph

Aliqapu, meaning grand doorway in Azeri language, is the name of a palace located in western edge of Naghsh-e-jahan square in Isfahan city, built during Shaah Abbas I of Safavid.

It's unique and glorious repetitive stucco ornaments and it's special architecture style,left me no choice but to stare at the ceiling and try to photograph it as best as I can.

For shooting this photo I was standing exactly in the middle of the music hall and took the photo from above of my head with a wide angle lens.

Mohammadreza Domiri Ganji