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Kaykhusraw Kadkhuda's house
One of the old houses of the Zoroastrian neighborhood in Yazd. According to the inscription on the stone plaque above the entrance: “In August (or September) of 2011, the children of Kaykhusraw Kadkhuda endowed this house in his memory to the Zoroastrian Society of Yazd, so that it can be used for charitable and religious matters.” The entrance hall leads on one side to a room and on the other to the large main courtyard of the house. As one enters the courtyard, the “piskam mas”(or main open salon), used for ceremonial purposes, is located to the left.
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Dowry registry of Ruqiyah Baygum, 1906
Dowry registry of Ruqiyah Baygum, daughter of Sayyid Taqi the leather seller, which was taken to the house of her husband, Muhammad Ibrahim the merchant from Yazd.
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Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Banu and Muhammad ʻAli, 1831
Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Banu, thedaughter of Rajab ʻAli, and Muhammad ʻAli, the son of Mulla ʻAbd Allah from Yazd. The mahr includes: two-sixths of the shared ownership of a house, worth ten tumans, clothes worth five tumans, two Shah-mans [each of which is six kilograms] of copper worth four tumans, a carpet for covering a room, worth two tumans, a mirror worth five thousand dinars, some gold and silver, a dowry chest worth one tuman, and two thousand dinars.
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Letter
Greeting letter, addressed to the writer's sister, expressing sympathy about the hardship that she has been through and discussing a document related to a stipend (she instructs the addressee how to find it). She also has some news from Karbala’.
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- ‘Aliriza (Sadr al-‘Ulama’)(1)
- Zarbanu Ardashir Kadkhuda(1)
- Sayyid Taqi (son of Mir Husayn)(1)
- Ruqiyah Baygum (daughter of Sayyid Taqi)(1)
- Navvab Sharaf al-Mamalik(1)
- Navvab Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Sharifi(1)
- Mirza Muhammad Sadr-i Sharif(1)
- Mihrbanu Isfandiyar Bahman Kadkhuda(1)
- Khavar Bihruzi(1)
- Kaykhusraw Khudadad Bahman Rustam Kadkhuda (1)