TheParthian style is a style (sabk) of historicalIranian architecture defined byMohammad Karim Pirnia.

Thisarchitectural style includes designs from theSeleucid (310–140 BCE),Parthian (247 BCE – 224 CE), andSassanid (224–651 CE) eras, reaching its apex of development in the Sassanid period.

Examples of this style areGhal'eh Dokhtar, the royal compounds atNysa,Anahita Temple,Khorheh,Hatra, theCtesiphon vault of Kasra,Bishapur, and thePalace of Ardashir inArdeshir Khwarreh (Firouzabad).^[1]

TheParthi style of architecture appeared afterAlexander the Great's conquest of theAchaemenid Empire in the 3rd century BCE, and historically includes the Sassanid, Parthian, and post Islamic eras, up to the 9th–10th centuries.^[2] The remains of the architectural style of this period are not abundant, and although much was borrowed and incorporated fromGreek designs and methods, architects and builders of this age employed many innovative concepts of their own as well.^[3]

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  1824 depiction ofTaq-i Kisra by British explorer.
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  Anahita Temple Archaeological complex inKangavar.
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  TheSassanid Palace at Sarvestan
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  Takht-e Soleymān
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  Temple of Gareus,Uruk

• Hellenistic architecture
• Ancient Greek architecture

• Pīrniyā, Muammah Karīm (2005).Sabk Shināsī-i miʻmārī-i Īrānī(Study of styles in Iranian architecture). Tehran: Surush-i Dānish.ISBN 964-96113-2-0.
• Kawami, T.; Keall, E. J.; Huff, D.; et al. (1987)."Architecture".Encyclopedia Iranica. Vol. 2. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 326–355.

• Architecture in Iran
• Hellenistic architecture
• Parthian architecture
• Sasanian architecture

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