Stone Garden

[vaez]

Introduction: Stone Garden (Persian:باغ سنگی) Stone Garden is Iran’s most amazing garden visited by about 6,000 Iranian and foreign tourists every year.

Located near Bolourd District, Miyandoab Village, in southern Iran, the garden has tall, dry trees from which hang stones weighing 1 to 10 kilograms.

Who has created this astonishing garden? Why do the tree branches carry stones as heavy as 10 kilograms? These are questions posed by most tourists and passersby.

In an interview with Iran Daily, Hadi Iranmanesh, the head of Kerman Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Department, said a hearing-impaired and mute landowner in Sirjan named Darvish Khan Esfandiyarpour created this garden.

According to Iranmanesh, the 2,500-square-meter garden lies 40 kilometers to the east of Sirjan on Sirjan-Baft Road.

“The Stone Garden was created between 1961 and 1963. A few years after the land reform plan was implemented (by the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza), Darvish Khan, who had lost some of his land as a result of it, in an act of protest hung stones from tree branches in his garden that had gone dry.”

Iranmanesh noted that Darvish Khan must have been a strong man, as some of the stones he hung from the trees by using thick wires weigh as much as 30 kilograms. “In addition to stones, he used such items as goat horns and animal skulls to decorate tree branches.”

He said that while it is less than 50 years since the garden was created, its story has spread by Iranian and foreign visitors, attracting many tourists to Miyandoab Village every year.

“For tourists, the Stone Garden is more attractive than other tourism sites of Sirjan,” he said.

Iranmanesh added that tourism and cultural heritage experts say the site has no major historical value but is important from cultural and anthropological aspects.

On the National Heritage List
Hassan Esfandiyarpour, Darvish Khan’s only son, told Iran Daily that the Stone Garden was registered on Iran’s National Heritage List in 2008.

He, however, said that he still owns and lives in the garden. Esfandiyarpour noted that his father died in 2007 at the age of 90 and was buried in the Stone Garden.

Source:Tehrantimes
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[vaez]

I need about three shots in number 5 a cross like Jesus

8-Grave Darveshkhon people are praying for him

9-Hoping for the day when evil head back garden bloom
Like the shadow of a tree

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[marlunn]

Thank you Vaez for posting this, it is fascinating and intruiging, they are great images

[deetheturk]

What a great place to visit Vaez, well documented and captured

[DEAN01]

Vaez,
Thank you for showing us such a wonderful and unusual place and giving such a detailed history. Good wok.

[vaez]

mark thanks for comment and attention

[vaez]

thanks david for viewing and comment

[Manfred M]

Vaex - I found reading what you have written quite interesting. It is unfortunate that you were there when the light was so harsh. I would imagine that shooting at either morning or evening "golden hour" would be quite nice.

[vaez]

hello manfred thanks for viewing and comment
The trip is very difficult to plan your time


It was a family trip we had 16 people with different tastes
Low chance
Do you think these photos are more features to an artwork

[Texas Dave]

I feel like I have a subscription to National Geographic online. As far as your photography, I would have shot some "blanket" shots just like you've done. (To cover the entire scope of the garden). I would have opted to shoot a few of the more interesting trees with a really shallow depth of field in order to isolate the interesting subject from the background. ...if that were at all possible with the close proximity of everything I see.

I like your shadow captures and I most appreciate you sharing your trip. Very interesting! Thanks!

[Barbara Ponder]

Such an interesting story and place. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

[purplehaze]

Fascinating, Vaez. I would echo everything Texas Dave has said.

[IzzieK]

Vaez...all nice photos. I like your shadow photography best and the rest of the other shots are interesting, including the write up telling us what your shot is all about. The story is very good and I can feel the pain of the owners of the land through it and through your images...Thank you for sharing...evil will always be part of human existence. It is how we live through it and how we passed through it and move forward that is more important. As big as this world is, there are a lot more nicer human beings in this world than evil ones.

[Stagecoach]

Thank you for sharing this fascinating series of photographs Vaez and the excellent information about the location.

Something I have never seen before.

[bnnrcn]

The photos are in a documentary style , thanks for sharing

[vaez]

hello to all dear friends
thanks for comment and viewing and attention

[Wavelength]

Very nice set...and me too have a special liking for that shadow cross image

[Ndukes]

Thank you for sharing these wonderful pictures and stories with us and I agree completely with what Izzie says.

[vaez]

Thank you for sharing these wonderful pictures and stories with us and I agree completely with what Izzie says.

Thanks dear for comment