Tabriz Bazaar
Tabriz bazaar is located in the city of the same name (Eastern Azerbāijān region). The construction date of this complex is unclear but many explorers who visited it from the fourth century of the lunar Hegira to Qajar period, have provided information about it.
This bazaar was rebuilt some three centuries ago and following the earthquake. In the past, due to the location of Tabriz at the crossroads of the Silk Road and the daily passage of caravans from different countries of Asia, Africa and Europe, this city and its bāzār enjoyed considerable prosperity.
With a surface area of approximately 1 km, it is considered the largest and most important covered bārār in the world (registered in the list of UNESCO world heritage sites in the year 2010). It is formed in its interior by small sales centers called bāzārche, by corridors, by timcheh (construction consisting of a high coverage of the central area surrounded by environments) dai Sara (building consisting of a central courtyard surrounded by hojre) and from numerous caravanserai and includes about 5500 hojre (shops or environments where goods are exchanged and stored), 40 professions, 35 Sara, 25 timcheh, 30 mosques, 20 Raste (main axis in which stores are aligned) 11 corridors, 5 hammam and 12 madrasas.
The Tabriz bāzār possesses the most complete social organization among the bāzār of Iran and the blood of history and authentic culture of the past still flows in its veins.
