This paper aims to present Tehran Grand Bazaar as a critical form-place, or, as Kenneth Frampton describes, an “arriére-garde” (Frampton, 1983, P. 20). It attempts to form a plea for a debate on the persistency of Tehran Grand Bazaar through its present-day condition.

The bazaar is rooted in the Persian city. It later became an intrinsic part of the Islamic city and a basic part of its morphology. It has always played an intermediate role between residential, religious and governmental parts. The older bazaar is not simply an economic institution; rather it is an amalgam of different activities such as coffee shops, public baths, ‘Tekye's

Tekye is the gathering place for religious ceremonies.

Tehran Grand Bazaar is a challenging piece of urban fabric to study the relationship cited behind the socio-economic and cultural forces within the city and the subsequent transformation of existing structure and its settlements.