shabestan
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thumb|right|Shabestan of the Jameh Mosque of Tabriz; as Tabriz does not have a hot climate, the Shabestan here was not built underground. A shabestan or shabistan (; is an underground space that can be usually found in traditional architecture of mosques, houses, and schools in ancient Iran.
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thumb|right|Shabestan of the Jameh Mosque of Tabriz; as Tabriz does not have a hot climate, the Shabestan here was not built underground. A shabestan or shabistan (; is an underground space that can be usually found in traditional architecture of mosques, houses, and schools in ancient Iran.
These spaces were usually used during summers and could be ventilated by windcatchers and qanats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “shabestan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.