Andaruni

Andaruni (Persian: اندرونی) in Iranian architecture, is the inner quarter where the women lived.

[1] In traditional Persian residential architecture the andaruni is a part of the house in which the private quarters are established.

This is also the place where women can interact with their kin (maharim) without following the dress code or without wearing the hijab.

[2] These two sections, which are both built around a garden,[3] are part of the so-called interior-exterior dichotomy of Persian houses, which denotes the spatial divide between andaruni and biruni segment.

[4] The former is the private space while the latter represents the public quarter as it is also the place where business and ceremonies are conducted.