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IRAN 2022 - Hamadan traditional bazaar pov walking tour

The Bazaar of Hamadan The city of Hamadan, as one of the oldest cities of Iran, was at the crossroads of important trade routes used by merchants across the continent. This, along with prosperous geographical conditions, made commercial prosperity possible. Prosperous commercial conditions paved the way for the establishment of the first private banks by the Jewish community in Agmatanu or Hamadan, in the 7th century B.C. Consequentially, the bazaar of the town prospered over the years. It consisted of various rastehs (main passageways which house shops on their either side) and caravanserais. It was placed in the center of the city and was connected to important places such as the congregational mosque and public squares. According to William Jackson who visited the bazaar in 1904, this bazaar was no exception to the other bazaars of Iran with its 500 shops under a roofed structure, modeled after the Islamic architecture. Jackson has accounted that the most important traded goods of the bazaar were leather and leather products. Rastehs were named after merchants or their commissioners such as Hosein Qani Rasteh, the professions that were concentrated in each rasteh such as zargarha rasteh (meaning the jewelers), religious places or titles such as the Qebleh rasteh, or certain social groups such as Nahavandiha rasteh. Additionally, a number of caravanserais were constructed which either borrowed their names from the names of the nearby rastehs or lent their names to them. #iran #bazaar #hamadan