Takiyeh Mo’aven-ol Molk, Kermanshah

Kermanshah owes its name, the Town of the King of Kerman, to the fact that it was founded in 390 A.D. by Bahram IV; who had been governor of Kerman before he ascended the Sassanian throne. It possesses a noticeable building (1898), the tomb and Takiyeh of Mo’aven-ol Molk, a Qajar complex standing in the middle of the town near a stream. The interior is a riot of tile-work, especially noteworthy being pictures of Mo’aven-ol Molk preaching (in the entrance court), of animals and mystical emblems (in the Takiyeh court), and in the dome chamber a fine series of portraits of Kings throughout the ages and are presentation of scenes from the life of the Prophet in nineteenth-century garb, with decapitated enemies piled in horizontal rows.