# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hossein-amanat
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:29:12.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hossein-amanat"
name: "Hossein Amanat"
slug: "hossein-amanat"
description: "Hossein Amanat is an Iranian-Canadian architect. He is best known as the architect of the Shahyad Tower in Tehran, Iran, the Baháʼí Arc buildings in Haifa, Israel and the House of Worship in Samoa. He has also been designated as the architect of the Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá currently under construction near Acre, Israel."
tagline: "Iranian-born Canadian architect (born 1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hossein_Amanat_-_Azadi_Square_-_Azadi_(Shahyad)_Tower_-_Tehran_-_Earlier_1970s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.38
  momentum:             3.269015519595246
  historical:           12.79795866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "حسين أمانات"
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    title: "Hossein Amanat"
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    title: "Hossein Amanat"
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    title: "Hossein Amanat"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump