Baharestan Palace

Baharestan Palace
کاخ بهارستان
Interactive map of the Baharestan Palace area
General information
Location	Baharestan Square, Tehran, Iran
Completed	1878

Baharestan Palace (Persian: کاخ بهارستان) is the historic Iranian parliament building, inaugurated in 1906 (see the Persian Constitutional Revolution). The neighborhood where the palace is located was named after the complex.¹

The palace was originally built by Mirza Hosein Khan Sepahsalar, a Qajar era prime minister, as his private residence. Afterwards, it was owned by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. During the Persian Constitutional Revolution, it became the Iranian parliament building. It was bombarded in 1908 by the forces of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar leading to the Minor Tyranny.

Baharestan Palace remained the location for the lower house of the Iranian parliament (the Senate had moved to a new building in central Tehran) until the Iranian Revolution in 1979. After the revolution, the parliament became unicameral and met at the Senate building, and to a newly built building in Baharestan in 2004.

32°30′N 51°48′E / 32.500°N 51.800°E / 32.500; 51.800

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  Parliament chamber, 1906
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  Baharestan Palace after bombardment, 1908
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  The old gate to the Baharestan gardens
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  Plan drawing of the parliament chamber
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  Baharestan Palace in 1956
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  The parliament chamber, Pahlavi era
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  Baharestan Palace on a 1981 banknote