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About Saqqakhaneh Movement

Saqqakhaneh was an Iranian neo-traditionalist movement of the 1960s and 70s — "spiritual Pop art" that mined the iconography of Shia votive shrines: coins, amulets, locks, hands of Fatima, zodiac and numeral stamps, and sacred nasta'liq script. Artists like Zenderoudi and Pilaram crowded talismanic motifs in green and gold across near-black devotional grounds.

This system distills that votive-shrine intensity into the screen — a blackened green field, sacred votive green and shrine gold heightening, and flowing Persian calligraphy that reads as devotion rather than plain text.

Learn more about the Saqqakhaneh Movement style

Origin
Middle East / Iran (Tehran)
Era
1950–1990 (movement crystallized early 1960s)
Key figures
Charles Hossein Zenderoudi · Faramarz Pilaram · Parviz Tanavoli · Nasser Ovissi
Movements
Saqqakhaneh (spiritual Pop art) · Iranian neo-traditionalism

Saqqakhaneh Movement design spec

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Surface
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VibesHeadings
LateefBody
Noto Nastaliq UrduMono
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