The Tehran Municipality Palace () was a building in

Toopkhaneh square ToopKhāneh (; which literally means "Artillery Barracks"), also spelt as Tūpkhāneh, is a major town square ('':wikt:meidan, Maidan-e Toopkhaneh'') and a neighborhood in the south of the central district of Tehran, Iran. It was built in 1867 b ...

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. It served as the office for Tehran municipality for over 4 devades before its demolition in 1969.

History

After the 1921 coup in Iran that led to

Zia ol Din Tabatabaee Seyyed Zia al-Din Tabataba'i Yazdi (; June 1889 – 29 August 1969) was an Iranian journalist and Persian Constitutional Revolution, pro-Constitution politician who, with the help of Reza Shah, spearheaded the 1921 Persian coup d'état and aim ...

becoming prime minister of Iran, an

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named Kasbar Ipegian became the acting mayor of Tehran. Ipegian ordered the construction of a municipality building in

to centralize affairs in the city. After

Reza Khan Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...

was crowned Shah of Iran in 1925, Karim Buzarjomehri became the mayor of Tehran and the building was completed. The building was demolished in 1969 for unknown reasons. File:Sakhteman Shahrdari Tehran.jpg File:Tehran-ghadim.jpg File:Shahrdari Building Tehran 1930s.jpg

References

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