Meeting to Review Tehran’s Old Gates

Following the photo exhibition “Gates of Old Tehran” held at City Photo Museum in Tehran, March 12 to April 19, a meeting will be held at the venue for a review of the gates. For the exhibit that ended 10 days ago, calligrapher, page illumination artist, ceramic artist, author, essayist and researcher in Iranian and Islamic arts, Kianoush Motaqedi, had collected 40 historical photographs of Tehran’s old gates and displayed them at City Photo Museum.  The upcoming meeting, slated for Monday, is titled “A Review on Gates of Old Tehran” where two lectures are scheduled, Chiilick, a Persian news website on photography, reported.  Farrokh Mohammadzadeh-Mehr, an expert in architectural heritage and researcher in history of urban design, will also attend the meeting to talk about “Function and Structure of Tehran’s Inner Gates.”