New Teaching Development in Qajar Period and Its Impression on School Building in Bushehr

The port of Bushehr was the most prestigious commercial port on the northern coast of Persian Gulf in Qajar era and was considered as the south gate entrance for the western civilization. In consequence of cultural developments in the course of Naseri and Mozafari and along with the rapid growth of building new schools by the efforts of men like Mirza Hasan Roshdieh, a new school was also established in Bushehr by the attempts of Ahmad Khan Daryabeigy - Bushehr General Governor - and Saadat Brothers in 1899. Due to the cultural services and the role of teachers and students of this school on other schools opened later, it was known as “The mother of Iran’s southern schools”.This paper casts a glance to the shaping of this new institution and its cultural development from the beginning to the end of the first Pahlavi dynasty.