The Shahi Bridge or the Khajou Bridge, which its name is derived from a place called Khajou or Khajeh in the vicinity of the bridge, has also been called by other names such as the Shirazi Bridge, the Baba Rokneddin Bridge, the Gabrha Bridge, the Hasan-Abad Bridge and the Amir-Hasan Beyk Bridge.
This bridge was built during the reign of Shah Abbas II and most probably on the ruins of the old Hassan Beyk Bridge.
The Khajou Bridge, a story of glory and beauty, is a bridge that its dado or lower part is made of stone and the upper part of it is made of bricks.
This is a bridge you can either pass through or rest for a while in its corridors and listen to the beautiful voices of the people singing under its arches.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, the European traveller, wrote:
“On the two sides of the bridge, there are two houses, which belong to the Shah, and there the river bed is more beautiful than everywhere else, and as this place is deeper than all other places, to some extent because of this reason, Shah Abbas was forced to build this bridge. Because the Zoroastrians were on the opposite side of the river, and in order to prevent them from crossing Chaharbagh Boulevard and also to shorten the path, the bridge was built in the period between 1057 and 1077 AH.”
