Khaja Barookh's House

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Courtyard of Khaja Barookh's House.

Khaja Barookh's House, is a house located in the old district of Faizabad in a Jewish neighborhood of Kermanshah, Iran. It was built by Barookh, a Jewish merchant of the Qajar period. The house, importasnt in its Iranian architecture, is now known as Randeh-Kesh house, after the last owner, is a "daroongara"(درونگرا)(pro-interior)house and is connected through a vestibule to the exterior yard and through a corridor to the interior yard.

Surrounding the interior yard are rooms, brick pillars making the iwans(porches) of the house, and step-like column capitals decorated with brick-stalactite work. This house is among the rare Qajar houses with a private bathroom.

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CHHTO of Kermanshah website's article [[1]]