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As an exception to what is generally seen in Persia, there are no ceme-
Cemetcries and imamzadebs. t ^ ries ^side the town of Kermanshah. Outside
the town there are two large ones, 1 he Kabr Aga
and the Kabr Feizabad or Teppeh Gazi beg, which, however, have nothin^
of interest.
There are no imamzadehs in or near Kermanshah; there is only a small
mined arch, the remains of a small cupola built over a tomb, which is said
to be the tomb of Seyyed Fatmeh, a female attendant of Fatmeh-el-
Massoumeh, vvho died hereon her way to Korn. Under the arch are two
tombstones with old Kufic inscriptions, but so effaced that it is now quite
impossible to decipher them.
1 here is also, at farsakhs from town, near Kinisht, a village called
Pir Gheib or Pir Khabir, but if ther- ever existed at this spot the tomb of
one of the descendants of the Imams it has now completely disappeared.
Kermanshah owes the buildings which can now be seen (either in faiilv
Public buildings. £? 0( ^ C0n ^ition or m complete ruin) to the munificence
oi two of it K sad jar (Governors—Mohamed All Mirza,
Dowlet Shah and Imam Gull Murza, Emad-ed-Uowleh, son of Uowlet
Shah.*
The former built the Chahar-bagh, the town walls, the Governor’s palace,
the artillery and the barrack squares, the villa of Dilkusha and the arsenal :
the latter the mosque of Emaded Dowleh, the Post Khaneh, Emadieh, and
the Kaisarieh part of the bazaars.
Two other buildings of public interest are the Pol Karasu and the Gisr
at Vekilieh.
AlThe Chahar Bagh, known also as Bagh Shahzdeh and Bagh Mohammed
i Mirza, is near the barracks ; a garden planted in imitation of the
Chahar bagh of Isfahan. It had a large building or reception place called
Tallar, the upper part of which was covered with tiles of no great value.
This building is fast going to ruin. As for the fine garden, where water
once flowed through numerous watercourses, it is now quite desolate, and
the big plane trees, so rare in this district, were mostly cut down under
the pretext of building barracks there, whilst the remainder have lately
been sacrificed for the purpose of making carriages for some antiquated
guns recently unearthed from oblivion in the arsenal.
Hie town walls ^ already mentioned, the town walls are no more
to be seen.
The Government buildings of this town are—The building and garden of the late
Mohamed Alt Mirza,the Kalleh Hajji Kerim, known as Dil kasha, the buildings of which were
renewed and repaired by Emad-ed-Dowleh ; the large Divan Khaneh (Hall of Justice), the ent
rance to which gives on the artillery square ; the Emarat Kashkul (oblong building), attached to the
Divan Khaneh ; the large Andtrun (women’s quarter), attached to the Emarat Kashkul ; the
Emarat Bidistan close by ; the Emarat Kalth (towers), between the Andarun and Archaine ; the
Emarat Archaine (tank room) behind the Divan Khaneh ; the stables, the private apartments
between the Emarat Kashkul and the Divan Khaneh (the Divan Khaneh Emarat Kashkul, Emarat
Anderun, Emarat Bidistan, Emarat Kakh, Emarat Archaine stables and Khalvat (private apa»t-
ments) form part of the Governor’s palace) ; the Arsenal, to the south of the Bagh Shahzdeh ;
the Chappar Khaneh, behin d the said garden ; the Maidan Sarbaz Khaneh (barrack square) to
the south of the Governor’s palace ; the artillery square, which is really the front court of the
Governor’s palace ; the Government prison, to the south of the Divan Khaneh, and the Neghareh
Khaneh, to the south of the artillery square;” (Kasr-ed-Diu Shah, “ Journey to Kerbela.”)