Ayneh Khane Mofakham Palace
The palace Āyneh Khāneh Mofakham is located in the city of Bojnurd (northern Khorāsān region) and was built in the 1250 decade of the solar Hirae in conjunction with the reign of Nasreddin Shāh Qājār at the behest of General Mofakham as an administrative environment for conducting meetings officers and the fulfillment of military and cultural formalities concerning political and social issues of the leaders of the ethnic groups in the areas subject to the government.
The ancient two-storey Āyneh Khāne Mofakham palace or General Mofakham's Darolhokume has three entrance doors and each is connected to a corridor, in one side of this there are two rooms and in the other some rooms and even two flights of stairs which lead to the upper floor.
On both sides of the main entrance of the building there are two half-columns whose entire body is covered with turquoise tiles, ultramarine blue and also black, white and yellow tiles. One of the upper rooms is a large one Talar (portico supported by slender wooden columns) whose walls and also the ceiling are entirely decorated with mirrors and just for the presence of this Talar the building was called "Āyneh khāne"(Lett: house of mirrors"); in the decoration, 17 was used for different reasons including the chandelier, i muqarnas, the external facade, the drawings iSlim floral, geometric, etc. ...
The presence in this Talar of images of 134 figures among the illustrious figures of the Safavid period up to the qajara and also heads of government of the adjacent countries, testifies the course of the political activities that took place in this building.
Brick, sand, lime, plaster, wood and stone were used in the construction of the building and its ceiling had two terracotta roofs. The Āyneh khāne is separated from the entire Darolhokume complex by a circumscribed green space which, together with other buildings including the Mofakham palace, the Kolāh farhangi, the pool environment and the portal, was located in a large garden and constituted the complex Darolhokume. Even today the Bojnurd anthropological museum is located here.
