Chehel Sotoun

A Chehel Sotoun چهلستون|“forty columns” is a palate of the type Iran IEN which, as its name indicates it, has a great number of columns. Those are however not inevitably forty, this number being used into Persan to mean abundance. Thus, with Qazvin, the chehel sotoun built for Shah Tahmasp in has T it twenty, which are reflected in a large basin.

One knows chehel sotoun in Iran, obviously, in particular at the period Safavide.

in Qazvin built for Tahmasp Shah towards 1556
in Ispahan for Shah 'Abbas II, in 1647

There are also some in India Moghol E and one in Afghanistan, the Chehel Sotoun of Kabul built for Prince Habib Allah in 1891.

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