This building is forty column building constructed in center of a part at far end of a long water pool. Shah Abbas 2 ordered to build it for his entertainment and receptions. Shah Abbas and his successors would meet with ambassadors and receive dignitaries in stately halls or on a terrace. Its name was forty (Chehel Sotoun or Chihil Sutun or Chehel Sotoon چهل ستون, literally , Forty Columns) columns or pillars because of twenty slender wooden columns supporting entrance pavilion when these columns reflect in water of fountains it is said thse columns appear to be forty. Its also mentioned in history that when this building was completed then welcome extended to the Mughal King Hamayion who too refuge to Iran from India.
Sunday, 13 April 2014
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