Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi ( fa, میرزا ابراهیم خان صحاف‌باشی; c. 1855–1922) was a pioneering

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

photographer and

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. In 1904, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first movie theater in

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. He was also the man who opened the first "Hamām-e nomré" (a kind of public shower with separate bathrooms) in Iran. (''History of Iran's Cinema'', by Jamal Omid. In Abolqasem Rezaee's quotes about his father, Mirza Ebrahim.)

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