Connections exist between early paradise myths, Jewish and Christian ideas of paradise, and some of the first known garden sites in Mesopotamia and Persia. The quadripartite Persian paradise garden ...

The seventeenth-century gardens at Agra that surround the Taj Mahal, for example, are the handiwork of Persian and Indian ... representing the four gardens of paradise described in the Koran.

“L.A. needs a Persian paradise garden,” Vaziri said. “We have a huge population of exiled Iranian Americans, and to create a garden that feels like home would mean the world to this communit ...