Qajar Palace

The Qajar Palace (Persian: قصر قاجار, romanized: Qasr-e Qajar) was the name of a Qajar era palace in Tehran, Iran. It was demolished in the 1920s to be replaced by the Qasr prison.^[1] The only remaining structure of the palace complex is a small pavilion.^[2]

It had four watchtowers on its corners and did not feature windows on the outside, making it look more like a barracks than a palace.

The palace was constructed in the second year of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar but fell out of use after his death. It was then used for military purposes during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. In the 1920s, Reza Shah demolished and replaced it with the Qasr prison, Iran's first modern prison.^[3][4][5]

The palace was depicted by Eugène Flandin and Pascal Coste, two Frenchmen who travelled to Iran during the reign of Mohammad Shah Qajar.

The prison that replaced it became a museum in 2011.^[1]

• Sketch by Eugène Flandin, 1840
• Sketch by Eugène Flandin, 1840
• Sketch by Eugène Flandin, 1840. This is the only structure in the complex that still remains.
• The only remaining structure in the complex.
• Photograph of the palace, 1860
• Sketch by Pascal Coste, 1840
• Photograph of the palace
• Sketch from Samuel Benjamin's 1887 book In Persia and the Persians