Moslehoddin Mahdavi, researcher and Isfahanologist has written: centuries before Islam, when Bokht-o Nasr, removed the jewish people from Palestine and bothered them, Cyrus, Achaemenid king of Iran, rescued them from Babylonian captivity, and allowed them to come to Iran.some of them settled in Isfahan. Two of the religious leaders and their prophets whose name were Joshua and shia lived in Isfahan and died and burid there.
Allameh Jalal al-din Homaei; a researcher, scientist and Isfahanologist also has written about Takht-e foulad: it is unique in its kind and nothing is like that anywhere in Iran. It is a collection of magnificent mansions that is complanate with safavid mosques and schools in having a variety of fine arts.
Industrial intelligence and aesthete taste of Isfahan peoples in creating art, also affected the cemetery and turned it into a collection of long mansions, flowered garden, green and luxuriant trees, ponds and cisterns with freshness and these reduce the grief of the pilgrimage of dead and stop in the cemetery. it is one of the promenade of the people of Isfahan. Takht-e foulad is a place of recreation and also a place for worship and asceticism. It is both sad and lively. The existence of mansions, create an special effect in the spirit of wise. Takht-e foulad is eternal sanctuary of thousands of great magnates who are reposing there for five centaries.
