The Takyeh Dowlat ( Persian : تکیه دولت , lit. 'State Takyeh ') was a royal theater in Tehran , Iran . It was the most famous of all the ta'zieh performance spaces, for the Mourning of Muharram . It had a capacity for more than 4,000 people. Built in 1868 by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar south-east of the Golestan Palace on the site of the Síyáh-Chál , the royal theater's sumptuous magnificence surpassed that of Europe's greatest opera houses in the opinion of many Western visitors. Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin said on his first visit that it was comparable to Verona Arena .
3-462: According to Karim Pirnia , Hossein-Ali Mehrin was the architect of this building. It was here that Reza Shah proclaimed the downfall of the Qajar dynasty . The Takyeh Dowlat was destroyed in 1947 and a bank building was constructed on the site. 35°40′42.65″N 51°25′15.93″E / 35.6785139°N 51.4210917°E / 35.6785139; 51.4210917 This article about
6-456: A specific theatre building is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Karim Pirnia Mohammad Karim Pirnia ( Persian : محمد کریم پیرنیا , 16 September 1920 – 31 August 1997 ) was an Iranian architectural historian and architect. Born in Yazd , Iran, he studied at what came to be Tehran University School of Fine Arts. Pirnia, a student of traditional Iranian architect,
9-520: Was one of the early architectural historians that developed a modern language to describe Iranian traditional architecture . His most prominent thoughts were later compiled as books and articles; among them “The Principles of Iranian Architecture” and “The Stylistics of Iranian Architecture” were more widely acclaimed. In the first one, he proposes five principles and in the latter, he defines six historical styles ( sabk ) for Iranian architecture. This biographical article about an Iranian historian
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