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Takht-e Soleyman
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How it came to be
Takht-e Soleyman, the Throne of Solomon, lies on a plain ringed by volcanic mountains in north-western Iran. A wall encloses an oval platform about 60 metres above the plain, with a spring-fed lake at its centre, and a cult of fire and water was practised here for some 2,500 years.
The Sasanians built the Zoroastrian fire temple of Adur Gushnasp here, one of the three Royal Fires before which kings humbled themselves to take the throne, dedicated to the warrior class. A temple to the goddess Anahita stood beside it.
The site was destroyed at the end of the Sasanian era, but in the 13th century the Ilkhanid ruler Abaqa Khan built a summer palace using the old temple and palace ruins. About 3 kilometres west, on the crater hill called Solomon's Prison, are shrines of the 1st millennium BC. The site was inscribed in 2003.
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