Iran Culture House, New Delhi, promotes mutual understanding and cultural cooperation between the peoples of India and Iran—celebrating shared heritage, language, literature, art and ideas.
Iran Culture House works to create enduring partnerships between Iran and other cultures by opening up opportunities to engage with Iranian knowledge, skills, ideas and experience.
Our cultural activities encourage understanding among people of different backgrounds, preserve tangible and intangible heritage, and support creativity through educational programmes, exhibitions, seminars, film screenings and cultural events.
From research and library services to cultural programmes, each initiative helps people discover the depth of Iranian and Indo-Persian heritage.
The Centre holds thousands of reference and research books on Persian language and literature. It supports teachers, researchers and scholars, collaborates with Indian libraries, and assists doctoral and postdoctoral research. Its activities have included Persian book catalogues, a Persian–English–Hindi trilingual dictionary, and the quarterly literary magazine Qand-e-Parsi.
Explore publicationsThe division promotes Iranian cinema, classical music, visual arts, calligraphy, handicrafts and cultural imagery. Film festivals, screenings and cultural exhibitions offer audiences in India opportunities to experience the richness of Iranian artistic traditions.
Meetings with people from Indian art and culture, seminars, round-table discussions and cultural programmes help build meaningful relationships and encourage exchange among communities, scholars and Iranians living in India.
Our specialist library has more than 30,000 books covering Persian language and literature, history, philosophy, humanities, art, psychology, reference works, Iranian and Indian history, Islamic studies and Sufism.
Its Persian literature collection includes more than 6,000 titles on classical and contemporary literature, poetry, prose, prosody and major Persian poets—including Rudaki, Ferdowsi, Attar, Omar Khayyam, Saadi, Rumi, Hafez, Nizami, Saib Tabrizi and Bedil Dehlavi.
The collection also includes Persian dictionaries, religious scholarship, journals and magazines, plus Iranology and Indology resources in English, Persian, Urdu and Hindi.
Persian language teaching is an important part of Iran Culture House's mission. Alongside earlier in-person courses at different levels, online classes have enabled learners from across the world to study Persian. Teaching activities at the New Delhi Persian Research Center are conducted under the supervision of the Saadi Foundation, established in 2012 to support Persian language teaching and learning worldwide.
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An Urdu religious magazine first published in April 1984, featuring Islamic sciences, society, literature and special thematic issues.
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A Persian literary magazine supporting the appreciation and study of Persian language, literature and poetry.
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A cultural publication highlighting exchange, shared perspectives and conversations across cultures.
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A window into Iranian culture, heritage, traditions and artistic life.
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Discover the lives, ideas and contributions of great scholars, thinkers and visionary leaders of Islamic Iran.
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