Jewish and Christian ideas of paradise, and some of the first known garden sites in Mesopotamia and Persia. The quadripartite Persian paradise garden was a prototype for the Islamic garden. The ...
“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 ...
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.