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City : Yazd
Address : Panjeh-Ali Bazaar, Qiam Street, Yazd.
Type of attractions : Historical

To enter Malek o Tojjar House, or the Malek o Tojjar Hotel, you should pass a long and narrow corridor which is known as "Darband alley" to get to the main courtyard of this house, in the middle of which there is a rectangular shaped pool with four fountains.

Malek o Tojjar House

Who was Malek o Tojjar ?

Haaji Ali Asqar Shirazi was one of the experienced carpet merchants in Yazd who had been given the title of Malek o Tojjar or king of merchants by Naser al-Din Shah because of his positive role in carpet business. 120 years ago, he decided to build a house under the name of Malek o Tojjar House with an area of 540 square meters. Malek o Tojjar House is now known as Malek o Tojjar Antique Hotel.

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Unique Architecture of Malek o Tojjar House

Malek o Tojjar designed this house in in three sections. One of the sections with Sedaris (rooms with three doors) and panjdaris (rooms with five doors) was for guests, another part for his own family members, and the other one for the servants of the house. He ordered one of the prominent painters of Shiraz to paint the house like Narenjestan Mansion (Qavam House) in Shiraz. It is said that the painting took 10 years to finish.
Comprised of 22 rooms, each room in Malek o Tojjar House has its unique features. Although all the sections are beautiful and adorable, some rooms are more eye catching because of their special designs and fine paintings. 

Malek o Tojjar House

The ceiling of Adam and Eve room is an Iranian carpet

A carpet painting on the ceiling of the so-called Adam and Eve room, which is located in the southern side of Malek o Tojjar House, attracts everybody. Haaji Ali Asqar Shirazi had a great interest in Iranian carpets, so he asked one of the painters from Shiraz to draw a painting of a carpet on the ceiling. Using the best natural paints, the painter drew such a beautiful picture of a carpet on the ceiling that even after 120 years it still astonishes the visitors. The door of this room is wooden sash and has stained glasses.

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Mirror Room of Malek o Tojjar Hotel

There is another room on the east side of the house called the mirror room with plaster and mirror work all over its walls and ceiling. The sash door of the room, which was there from the beginning of constructing of the building, doubles the beauty of this room.

Malek o Tojjar House

Joseph and Zuleikha Room of Malek o Tojjar Hotel

Another beautiful room in this house is a room called Yusuf and Zuleikha which is distinctive from other rooms because of the gold work used in the painting of the room.
There had been a qanat running in the basement of the house which is dried now like the other qanats of the province. Since this house is now known as Malek o Tojjar Hotel and hosts tourists from all over the world, there is an artificial flow of water running in its qanat to make the distinctive and unique construction built by the people of desert more tangible.

Malek o Tojjar House

Stay in Malek o Tojjar Hotel

As mentioned before, it has been a while that Malek o Tojjar House has been functioning as Malek o Tojjar Hotel. To book a room in Malek o Tojjar Hotel, click here. 
Malek o Tojjar Hotel is in Panjeh-Ali Bazaar, Qiam Street, Yazd.
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