ANDARUNI or HAYAT GHERMEZ – GHAJAR GALLERY

Hayat Ghermez
The walls of this inner private courtyard are covered with red mud from the nearby mountain village of Abyaneh.
Indeed, the walls of the courtyard are built of dried mud bricks ,assembled by a mortar composed of water, straw and red earth. due to iron oxide or hematite.

A wooden bar is embedded into the highest wall to attach horses and donkeys.

A dovecote intended to house pigeons or doves is built in the cylindrical tower with a dome of bricks.A window or skylight is the only opening.

The court consists of four small gardens with mulberry trees providing shade and coolness around a small pond with blue lapis lazuli tiles.

On the same wall framed tiles from the end of the Qhajar's period look like a real solidified nature , a framed mosaic of interlaced arabesques interspersed with flowers.

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Ghajar Gallery
The room overlooking the courtyard has been transformed into a Ghajar Gallery.

The Qajar dynasty is an Iranian royal family who ruled Persia (Iran) from 1785 to 1925

During Nasser-e-Din Shah's reign, Western science, technology, and educational methods were introduced into Persia and the country's modernization was begun. Nasser ed-Din Shah tried to exploit the mutual distrust between Great Britain and Russia to preserve Persia's independence, but foreign interference and territorial encroachment increased under his rule.

The Persian Constitutional Revolution took place between 1905 and 1907. The revolution led to the establishment of a parliament in Persia (Iran) and it was the first event of its kind in Asia. The system of constitutional monarchy created by the decree of Mozzafar-al-Din Shah that was established in Persia as a result of the Revolution ultimately came to an end in 1925 with the dissolution of the Qajar dynasty and the ascension of Reza Shah Pahlavi to the throne.

A figure of the Qhajar dynasty, Amir Kabir, is well known in the region of Badrood.
Amir Kabir (1807 1852) امیرکبیر), also known as Mirza Taghi Khan Amir- was chief minister to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (Shah of Persia) for the first three years of his reign and one of the most capable and innovative figures to appear in the whole Qajar period. Amir Kabir served as Prime Minister of Persia (Iran) under Naser al-Din Shah.

He is considered by some to be "widely respected by liberal nationalist Iranians" as "Iran's first reformer", a modernizer who was "unjustly struck down" attempted to bring "gradual reform" to Iran.

Mirza Taghi Khan Amir Kabir, was largely responsible for ensuring the crown prince's succession to the throne. When Nasser ed-Din succeeded to the throne, Amir Nezam was awarded the position of prime minister and the title of Amir Kabir, the Great Ruler.

At that time, Persia was nearly bankrupt. During the next two and a half years Amir Kabir initiated important reforms in virtually all sectors of society. Government expenditure was slashed and a distinction was made between the private and public purses. The instruments of central administration were overhauled and Amir Kabir assumed responsibility for all areas of the bureaucracy. Foreign interference in Persia's domestic affairs was curtailed, and foreign trade was encouraged. Public works such as the bazaar in Tehran were undertaken.

One of the greatest achievements of Amir Kabir was the building of Dar ul-Funun, the first modern university in Persia and the Middle East. Dar-ol-Fonoon was established for training a new cadre of administrators and acquainting them with Western techniques. He hired French and Russian instructors as well as Persians to teach subjects as different as Language, Medicine, Law, Geography, History, Economics, and Engineering. Unfortunately, Amir Kabir did not live long enough to see his greatest monument completed.

These reforms antagonized various notables who had been excluded from the government. They regarded Amir Kabir as a social upstart and a threat to their interests, and they formed a coalition against him, in which the queen mother was active. She convinced the young shah that Amir Kabir wanted to usurp the throne. In October 1851 the shah dismissed him and exiled him to Kashan, where he was murdered on the shah's orders in the bathroom of Bagh-e Fin in Kashan, fourty kilometers far from Badrood. Through his marriage to Ezzat od-Doleh, Amir Kabir had been the brother-in-law of the shah.

Are exposed in this gallery more than a hundred portraits of the rulers of the Ghajar dynasty, women and children as well as scenes of military ,religious and everyday life.

A collection of correspondences of Amir Kabir exposed in this gallery attests of its spirit of reformer.

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