Khaneh-ye Tanbur (House of the Tanbur)

Khaneh-ye Tanbur (“House of the Tanbur”) was built by the tanbur player Ali Akbar Moradi in the village of Banzelan-e Sofla (Guran rural district), on land he says he inherited from his father. It opened on 12 September 2017, together with the closing of the 1st Kohan Avaha-ye Tanbur Festival, and the live finals of the later editions have been held here too.

According to the newspaper Shargh (6 and 14 September 2017), building work on Khaneh-ye Tanbur had begun about twelve years before the festival and was halted several times. The centre stands on a 7,000 m² plot, with 800 m² of floor space on two storeys: the first floor has ten rooms for tanbur classes, for teaching calligraphy, painting and theatre to children and handicrafts to the village women, as well as a library; the second floor is a hall with a domed ceiling and tall windows, intended for concerts and music festivals. The house stands on a hill beside the lake of the Azadi dam, on land Moradi says he inherited from his father.