Qom municipality is improving the 600-year-old bazaar to recreate the city and preserve the identity and permanence of historical and cultural monuments of this metropolis.
Alireza Khaki, the CEO of Urban Renewal Organization of Qom Municipality, said on Sunday that a tripartite memorandum has been signed between the municipality, cultural heritage organization, and the board of trustees of the old bazaar to refine this historical heritage.
referring to the flooring operation of the old bazaar as one part of the restoration plan, Alireza Khaki stated that the project started at the end of the last year and its infrastructures were implemented in less than three weeks.
The old bazaar of Qom with its valuable surrounding structures located to the east of Taleqani Avenue and has many capacities to attract tourists.
Some of the historical sectors of the bazaar date back to the Saljuqi and Eilkhani periods. In fact, the old bazaar and its surrounding buildings date to the pre-Safavid period, but the architecture, layout, general network, and arcades of the new sector are mostly of the Safavid and Qajar periods.
The old bazaar section comprises an aggregate of the entrance of Razavieh School, Sabuniha Mosque, Chehel Sotune Mosque and porch, and the minarets of the remnants of Qiasieh School. And the new section consists of a series of the surrounding alleys and the Haj Asqar Khan Bath.
The new section of the Qom bazaar was extended in the middle of the Qajar period, by the order of Naser al-Din Shah. Some other significant parts were also added in the Pahlavi period for commercial reasons.
In the last decade, some restoration projects have been done in the old bazaar of Qom like repairing collapsed arches, lightening, removal of extensions, strengthening, whitewashing, and bricklaying