Hossein Amanat is an Iranian-Canadian architect. He is best known as the architect of the Shahyad Tower in Tehran, Iran, the Baháʼí Arc buildings in Haifa, Israel and the House of Worship in Samoa. He has also been designated as the architect of the future Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.
Amanat in front of the Azadi Tower
Seat of the Universal House of Justice.
Azadi Tower, Tehran, Iran
Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts
Iranian Canadians or Persian Canadians are Canadians of Iranian origin. From the 2016 Canadian census, the main communities can be found in Southern Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. The vast majority, however, live in northern suburbs of Toronto such as Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Markham, and Thornhill, and in certain municipalities of Vancouver, including North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, and Coquitlam. As of 2016 a total of 97,110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area, 46,255 in the Greater Vancouver Area, and 23,410 in the Greater Montreal Area, with the remainder spread out in the other major cities of Canada, based on the 2016 Canadian Census. These numbers represent the people who stated "Iranian" as their single or joint ethnic origin in the census survey.
Editorial team of Shahrvand weekly in Toronto, the largest Persian newspaper in Canada
Little Persia on Yonge Street at North York, 2014
The Ghermezians, an Iranian-Canadian family, own the West Edmonton Mall.
ITC TV, one of the Persian-language TV stations in Toronto