Tour of the Emamzadeh Yahya and Kohneh Gel

A film by Hamid Abhari

This film offers a tour of the Emamzadeh Yahya and surrounding Kohneh Gel neighborhood. Most of this footage was taken in January 2024 and October 2024 on rather cold and cloudy days. As a point of contrast, we include some additional photographs from sunny days in October 2021 and March 2024. We hope you enjoy this tour by foot and by car, across the years and seasons.

Figure 1. View of the Emamzadeh Yahya from the park in front of the complex. Photograph by Hamid Abhari, October 2024.

Sites in Kohneh Gel (کهنه‌گل)

  • Emamzadeh Yahya, امامزاده یحیی: Ilkhanid, dated elements spanning 660/1262–707/1307; Safavid-period door dated 971/1563; extensive alterations to the overall complex and tomb in the late Qajar period
  • Park in front of the Emamzadeh Yahya with a memorial dated 1398 Sh/2018–19
  • Meydan-e Kohneh Gel, میدان کهنه گل, or qatlgah, قتلگاه: the site of Emamzadeh Yahya’s (d. 255–56/869–70) martyrdom
  • Hosayniyeh Kohneh Gel, حسینیه کهنه گل: the hosayniyeh of the Kangarlu tribes, 1980s
  • Masjed-e Bab ol-Havaʾej, مسجد باب الحوائج: the main mosque of Kohneh Gel

Map 1. Sites in Kohneh Gel, Varamin. Google Map created by Keelan Overton, November 2024.

The Film

Watch the film on our YouTube page in high resolution.

Related pages:

  • Filmed tour of Varamin
  • Maryam Rafeienezhad’s essay on the present life of the Emamzadeh Yahya complex
  • Other features in the Building gallery

Hamid Abhari Architect and Construction Project Manager, Tehran

Citation: Hamid Abhari, “Tour of the Emamzadeh Yahya and Kohneh Gel.” Film in The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: An Online Exhibition of an Iranian Shrine, directed and edited by Keelan Overton. 33 Arches Productions, January 15, 2025. Host: Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online.