Museum of the Qasr Prison
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| Location | Tehran, Iran |
| Coordinates | 35°43′25″N 51°26′54″E / 35.7236°N 51.4483°E |
The Museum of the Qasr Prison (Persian: موزه زندان قصر muze-ye zendān-e qasr) is a historical complex in Tehran, Iran.
Formerly referred to as the Qasr Prison (زندان قصر zendān-e qasr, "Mansion prison"), it was one of the oldest political prisons in Iran, which is now a museum complex surrounded by a
public park
.
History
Qasr was originally built in 1790 as
adobe bricks, which became known as Markovian bricks.[2] It had 192 rooms for 700 prisoners, of which about 100 cells were solitary.[1] Here Ahmad Ahmadi, known to prisoners simply as “Dr Ahmadi” administered lethal air injections to several of Reza Shah's many opponents, such as the poet Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi. After Reza Shah was overthrown by the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941, Ahmadi himself was tried for the murders and executed in 1943.[2]
For
Amir Abbas Hoveida[5][6] were imprisoned at Qasr before being executed on the roof of Refah School, where Khomeini had set up his headquarters.[2]
In subsequent decades the prison fell into disuse till in 2005 it was announced by the
Iranian Students News Agency Qasr was named the most creative museum in the country in 2013.[8]
Gallery
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A small pavilion at the park. -
An entrance to the park.
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See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Qasr Prison, Qajar Qasr Palace.
References
- ^ Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency. 1 March 2005. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ The Tehran Bureau. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- The Telegraph-Herald. Tehran. UPI. 9 April 1979. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ "Manuchehr Khosrodad: One Person's Story". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Abdorrahman Boroumand Center. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- The Iranian. Abadan Publishing Co. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ISBN 978-0-81560-907-0.
- TripAdvisor. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ "Qasr Garden Museum / Experimental Branch of Architecture". ArchDaily. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
