Marble Palace (Tehran)

The Marble Palace (Persian: کاخ مرمر, Kākh-e Marmar) is a historic building and former royal residence in Tehran, Iran.

[2] The property in which the Marble Palace is situated used to belong to Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma, a Qajar Prince.

[4] It was constructed on the orders of Reza Shah by French engineer Joseph Leon and Iranian architect Fat'hollah Firdaws.

The Iranian wedding ceremony of the Shah and his first spouse, Princess Fawzia, was held at the palace in 1939, and it was their residence until their divorce in 1945.

[12][13] Shahnaz Pahlavi, daughter of the Shah and Princess Fawzia, also wed Ardeshir Zahedi at the palace in October 1957.

[15] The palace witnessed a five-day protest of Mohammad Mosaddegh's supporters between 14 and 19 October 1949 who could not secure a seat in the election.

[16] They were eighteen former Parliament members, newspaper editors, and religious leaders, including Hossein Fatemi and Shamseddin Amir-Alai, who entered the palace to meet with the Shah to express their concerns about the election.

[1][2] The stone entrance of the palace where two statues of Achaemenid soldiers holding arrows were erected particularly reflects eclectic architectural style.

[29] The historical items used at the palace, including furniture, are being exhibited at the decorative arts museum in Tehran.

The image of the Marble Palace on a 100 Iranian rial banknote dated 1974