Tarbiat Library ( fa, کتابخانه تربیت) is the first state library constructed in Iran, established in 1921 at

Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quru River valley in Iran's historic Azerbaijan region between long ridges of vo ...

. The

library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vi ...

was founded by

Mahammad Ali Tarbiat Mohammad Ali Tarbiat ( fa, محمدعلی تربیت ; born May 26, 1877 — died January 17, 1940) was an Iranian revolutionary, politician and reformist. He founded the Tarbiat library which was the first library in Iran. Tarbiat was a writer ac ...

, an Iranian

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and

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, as the "Ma'aref

public library A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants. There are ...

and reading room" ( fa, كتابخانه و قرائتخانه عمومي معارف) which was later renamed after its founder to Tarbiat Library.

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