Stone Garden
darvish khan Esfandiar pour built Stone Garden near sirjan city in IRAN-Kerman about 60 KM to Baft
it's amazing
The stone Garden (Baq-i Sangi) باغ سنگی، پاییز ۹۳
The Stone Garden
Camera: Mehrnaz Mansouri
Review by Mehdi Ganjavi and Shahab Shafe
Amidst the arid land of Sirjan, a historic city at south of Iran, a surrealistic oasis known as Stone Garden ( baqi-sangi) catches the eyes of every visitor. It is the life-long project of an illiterate rural man, called Darvish Khan (1917-2007). Myriad unanswered rumors, attributed to the cause of the creation of such tree-metal-stone garden, are prompted by the silent curse of the old man. One story says the rockery was built in a response to a governmental oppression which resulted to the demise of Darvish Khan’s garden. According to another, an eccentric reverie, in which a stone descended from the sky and fall in front of him in the desert inspired him to do so. The garden was a “pista de ballo” for the enigmatic man where he used to dance with some semi-ritual spontaneous moves (see the second link).
The evaluation of this artifact has been controversial. Some critics describe it as a personal obsession with stones which bears no artistic value, and some see it as one of the most avant-garde pieces of environmental art. Parviz Kimiavi, Iranian modernist filmmaker, dramatized a movie based on this garden in 1976 in which Darvish Khan himself played.
After the death of the creator, his masterpiece became the eternal haven for his body (check the black gravestone in front of the trees). It seems to me that all the trees, and the garden as a whole, are praying to his absent dancing body.
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To see the artist's dance with his artifact:
the Dervish Khan
Beautiful Images (1976) of the dervish khan, a deaf and mute Iranian Dervish Shepherd, dancing in the middle of his stone garden, his magical creation...
[Extract from Baq-hr sangi (the stone garden) directed by parviz kimiavi (Iran)]
Iran Sirjan Tractor co. made Tractor manufacturer, Sirjan free trade zone تراكتور سازي سيرجان ايران
April 4, 2018 (Persian calendar 1397/1/15)
Omran Sirjan Tractor MFG company (شركت تراكتورسازي عمران سيرجان) official website
Kerman province (استان كرمان)
Sirjan county (شهرستان سيرجان)
Sirjan free trade zone (منطقه آزاد تجاري سيرجان) official website
Omran Sirjan Tractor Mfg since 2001 has been manufacturing garden, farm and paddy tractors ranging from 25- up to 145 hp with modern technology.
All products are favored from international certifiactes such as OECD and E-mark and are provided with one year warrantee.
Iran Sirjan Tractor co. made Tractor manufacturer, Sirjan free trade zone
تراكتور سازي سيرجان ايران
ccbc men message to sirjan
birthday of sirjan
Natale in Iran. Christmas in Iran. Sirjan 2009. Processione
Sirjan's Graduation Ceremony
Sirjan's Graduated to KG,
In Sirjan, some of the protesters burned down one of t petrol stations
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سیرجان در گذر تاریخ
سیرجان شهری است که در تاریخ کرمان اهیمت و جایگاه ویژه ای از نظر تاریخی دارد این شهر تا نیمه دوم صده چهارم هجری مرکز ایالت کرمان بوده است و ......
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The Ancient Village of Meymand, Kerman
Meymand (Persian: ميمند, also Romanized as Maymand, Meimand and Maimand) is a village in Meymand Rural District, in the Central District of Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 673, in 181 families.
Meymand is a very ancient village which is located near Shahr-e Babak city in Kerman Province, Iran. Meymand is believed to be a primary human residence in the Iranian Plateau, dating back to 12,000 years ago. Many of the residents live in the 350 hand-dug houses amid the rocks, some of which have been inhabited for as long as 3,000 years. Stone engravings nearly 10,000 years old are found around the village, and deposits of pottery nearly 6,000 years old attest to the long history of settlement at the village site.
source from wikipedia
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Golgohar 1-0 Sepahan / حذف زودهنگام طلایی پوشان از جام حذفی
Sirjan - 18/10/2014
شنبه 26 مهرماه
La danse du berger
Darvich Khan, un berger sourd et muet, danse au milieu de son jardin de pierres, sa création magique. ( l'extrait du film Le jardin de pierres 1976, réalisé par Parviz Kimiavi).
Our Interview on Iranian TV
During our recent trip to Iran we were interviewed by Afrooz Eslami on IRIB Iranian TV - March 23, 2014. In the interview we thank the Iranian people for their warmth and hospitality during our trip.
Big Cycle 4: Persia / Arabia (www.thenextchallenge.org)
Six weeks' cycling through an Iranian winter into Dubai, the Emirates and Oman.
Laura and Tim Moss are cycling from the UK to Australia. They left London in August 2013 and reached the Middle East in January 2014.
Read more and follow their progress at
Filming: Tim Moss & Laura Moss
Music: Sound of Drums by Kula Shaker
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Bakhtiari Oriental Carpets - CarpetU2
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In the mountains Zagros, west of the city of Isfahan, around the town of Shahr-e-Kurd, live the nomads Bakhtiar. Their carpets are known for the design with various repeating squares in which flowers and animals are depicted. For this reason the design is called garden(Khesti). Their carpets are very durable with a dense weave and very good quality Persian wool coming from sheep grazing at a high altitude. The best Bakhtiar carpets with highest knot density are often called Bibibaff. Also in many designs we see influences from Isfahan carpets. (Boldaji - Feridan - Saman)
*Greek*
Στα βουνά Ζάγκρος (Zagros), δυτικά της πόλης του Ισφαχάν (Isfahan), γύρω από την πόλη Σαρεκόρντ (Shahr-e-Kurd), κατοικούν οι νομάδες Μπαχτιάρ (Bakhtiar). Τα χαλιά τους είναι γνωστά για το σχέδιο με τα διάφορα επαναλαμβανόμενα τετράγωνα μέσα στα οποία αναπαρίστανται λουλούδια ή ζώα. Για τον λόγο αυτό το σχέδιο ονομάζεται Κήπος (Khesti). Τα χαλιά τους είναι πολύ ανθεκτικά, με πυκνή ύφανση και με πολύ καλό ποιοτικά περσικό μαλλί το οποίο προέρχεται από πρόβατα που βόσκουν σε μεγάλο υψόμετρο. Τα καλύτερα χαλιά Bakhtiari που διαθέτουν την μεγαλύτερη πυκνότητα κόμπων συχνά ονομάζονται Bibibaf. Επίσης σε πολλά σχέδια παρατηρούμε επιρροές από χαλιά Isfahan (Boldaji, Feridan, Saman).