Scholars Pavilion Explained

Scholars Pavilion or Scholars Chartagi is a monument donated by the nation of Iran to the United Nations Office at Vienna. The monument architecture is Persian Achaemenid architecture,[1] with Persian columns and other features from Persepolis and other remains from the Achaemenids. The Chahartaq pavilion form runs through Iranian architecture from pre-Islamic times to the present.

Statues of Iranian medieval scholars, Omar Khayyam, Al-Biruni, Rhazes and Avicenna (Ibn-e-Sina or Pour Sina) are inside the pavilion. This monument donated in June 2009 in occasion of Iran's peaceful developments in science.[2] [3] This monument was designed by Alireza Nazem Alroaya and constructed by Sadeh Architecture City Construction.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Persian Scholar pavilion. IRNA. 29 November 2016. Persian.
  2. Web site: Monument to Be Inaugurated at the Vienna International Centre. UNIS. 29 November 2016.
  3. Web site: Statues of four Iranian scientists in United Nations Office at Vienna. Tabnak. 29 November 2016. Persian. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161130035918/http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/pages/?cid=51185 . 30 November 2016.