- Firdaossi
- A statue of at the Iran League office at Navsari Building, Dr Dadabhai Naoroji Road, Fort, Mumbai.
Before sending it to Iran the statue was taken around the Parsi inhabited streeets of Bombay in a truck from morning to evening on 18th February 1945 (Kaiser-I-Hind 18-2-1945). The statue was designed by an architect, Mr Vicajee Ardeshir Taraporevala, and sculpted by Rao Bahadur G. K. Mhatre for the Iran League. The statue was unveiled by H.R.H. Aryamehr Shah at Teheran on 2nd October 1945. [*]
Here we reproduce a persian manuscript relating the history of this statue :
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There is also a beautiful statue of the famous Iranian poet Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi in Ferdowsi Park, a 13 hectare park located in Tehran Municipality District 1. The park was opened in 1996. A marble statue of Firdaosi is also placed outside his tomb at Tus, Khorassan, Iran.
- Ferdowsi Park
- A beautiful statue of the famous Iranian poet in a 13 hectare park situated in Tehran.
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