The Salehiye School (

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: مدرسه صالحیه) is a historical building in

Qazvin Qazvin (; ; ) is a city in the Central District (Qazvin County), Central District of Qazvin County, Qazvin province, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is the largest city in the provi ...

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. Built in the first half of the 19th century by Mohammad Saleh Baraghani, it managed to become one of the most important

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religious schools in

Qajar Iran The Guarded Domains of Iran, alternatively the Sublime State of Iran and commonly called Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia or the Qajar Empire, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic peoples, Turkic origin,Cyrus G ...

, having more than 700 students, it trained many notable figures such as Jamal ad-Din Asadabadi and Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini.سیر تاریخی بنای شهر قزوین و بناهای آن، دکترسید محمد دبیرسیاقی، انتشارات حدیث امروز با همکاری اداره کل میراث فرهنگی استان قزوین، شابک ‎۹۶۴−۷۵۳۶−۱۳−۵

Gallery

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References

Buildings of the Qajar period 19th-century establishments in Iran Qazvin {{Iran-school-stub