Sepah Street

The Sepah Street (Persian: خیابان سپه), also known as the Shohada Street (Persian: خیابان شهدا) is a street in Qazvin, Iran. It is the oldest planned street in Iran, built when Qazvin was the capital of Iran's Safavid empire.[1][2][3][4][5]

Sepah Street
LocationQazvin, Iran
Built16th century

The street leads to the Safavid royal complex in Qazvin, and passes next to the Jameh Mosque of Qazvin and Imamzadeh Hossein.

Name

During the Qajar era the street was known as "Dowlati". The name Sepah was given to the street during the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi. In the Persian language "Sepah" means "army". After the Iranian revolution in 1979, the street was renamed to Shohada street, Shohada meaning "Martyrs", to commemorate the dead Iranian soldiers in the Iran Iraq war, and to remove the association the previous name had to the Pahlavi dynasty.[3]

History
Jameh mosque of Qazvin in 1925. Sepah street is visible in the picture.

Shah Tahmasp Safavid moved the capital from Tabriz to Qazvin in 1546, as Tabriz was vulnerable to Ottoman attacks. During this time many palaces and gardens were created, as was as the building of Imamzadeh Hossein, and the street was created to connect these places. It is the oldest planned street in Iran.[6]

  • Tile on the gate to the Safavid royal complex, reading "Sepah Street"
    Tile on the gate to the Safavid royal complex, reading "Sepah Street"
  • Sepah street
    Sepah street
  • Entrance to the Jameh mosque of Qazvin as seen from the Sepah street
    Entrance to the Jameh mosque of Qazvin as seen from the Sepah street

References
  1. "لذت قدم زدن در کوچه و پس کوچه‌های اولین خیابان کشور+ فیلم". fa (in Persian). September 16, 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  2. "خیابان سپه، نخستین خیابان طراحی شده ایران- اخبار استانها تسنیم | Tasnim". خبرگزاری تسنیم | Tasnim (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  3. "خیابان «سپه» نخستین خیابان ایران". ایسنا (in Persian). 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  4. "قزوین و جاذبه‌های منحصر به فرد گردشگری". ایرنا (in Persian). 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  5. "نخستين خيابان طراحي شده ايران،‌ قلب تپنده قزوين - ایسنا". www.isna.ir. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  6. "تاريخچه معابر شهر قزوين - پورتال شهرداری قزوین". traffic.qazvin.ir. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
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