Scholars Pavilion or Scholars Chartagi is a monument donated by the nation of Iran to the United Nations Office at Vienna. The monument architecture is Persian Achaemenid architecture,[1] with Persian columns and other features from Persepolis and other remains from the Achaemenids. The Chahartaq pavilion form runs through Iranian architecture from pre-Islamic times to the present.
Statues of Iranian medieval scholars, Omar Khayyam, Al-Biruni, Rhazes and Avicenna (Ibn-e-Sina or Pour Sina) are inside the pavilion. This monument donated in June 2009 in occasion of Iran's peaceful developments in science.[2][3] This monument was designed by Alireza Nazem Alroaya and constructed by Sadeh Architecture City Construction.
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- ^ "Persian Scholar pavilion". IRNA (in Persian). Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Monument to Be Inaugurated at the Vienna International Centre". UNIS. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
- ^ "Statues of four Iranian scientists in United Nations Office at Vienna". Tabnak (in Persian). Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.