Tehran Shah Abbasi Bazaar

The blue Shah Abbasi bazaar is nearly a new construction of a roofed market with three floors, mainly dedicated to handmade rugs of any region in Iran. The bazaar was influenced by Safavid architecture (especially Isfahan city) in its decorations, like arabesque tiles in turquoise and indigo colors. This unique carpet bazaar is located in the center of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and contains handmade carpets stores and carpet repairing workshops, so the main focus of this bazaar is handmade carpets. Still, few machine-made carpets stores are available there. We can’t say if this unique bazaar is a traditional or a modern market; this is a carpet market way more stylish than other conventional bazaars where you can benefit from features and advice from carpet experts. Also, the architecture of Shah Abbasi bazaar makes the sweet sense of ancient Persian culture and art. Furthermore, Shah Abbasi bazaar is a unique and rare market where you can also find machine-made rugs.

many stores belong to selling carpets and rugs of many types like picture carpets and kilim rugss and styles like Varamin, Heriz, Isfahan and Kerman rugs and tribal kilim rugs

There are some repairmen there who provide different carpet repair and polishing services both for handmade and machine-made rugs there.

The age of the Shah Abbasi bazaar isn't a lot, turning back to more than 50 years ago. The government built this market to improve the Persian Carpet trade in a classic-style complex in the center of Tehran. As Tehran has a serious commercial situation, many merchants and producers of Persian handmade carpets welcomed this bazaar, and now they have a prominent role in it. As time passed, the industry of machine-made carpets in Iran grew gradually. So Shah Abbasi bazaar became a place for machine-made distributors, too, as they had come into competition with handmade rugs. Now, this bazaar is not only a market but a tourist site filled with beauty and signs of traditional Persian arts and carpets. You can see everywhere in this market is covered with turquoise tiles in Safavid style.