Farrāshband

Farashband lies among the warm valleys of western Fars, between Firuzabad and Kazerun. Nearby stands a small Sasanian fire temple built of stone and plaster in the four-arched form known as a chahar taq. Four piers support arches and a dome, a design found at many religious sites of ancient Iran. The building is one of the traces of Sasanian settlement in a landscape where long mountain ridges enclose cultivated valleys and routes towards the Gulf.