By K. Dana
A large storehouse caught fire in Tehran’s historic square of Hassanabad on Wednesday, July 17. Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire after it had spread to historic parts of Tehran’s Hassanabad Square.
Hassanabad resides in a Qajar Dynasty area in Tehran. Hassanabad is one of the designed urban spaces in old Tehran, located on the intersection of two main streets, Hafez and Sepah, and erected during the first Pahlavi reign (1930-1940).
According to cultural heritage experts, hundreds of historical documents have been burned over the last hundred years, in addition to the buildings.