The Parsian Enghelab Hotel is a 250-room hotel in Tehran, Iran.
Parsian Enghelab Hotel | |
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Hotel chain | Parsian Hotels |
General information | |
Location | Tehran, Iran |
Coordinates | 35°42′26″N 51°24′31″E / 35.7072°N 51.4086°E |
Opening | 1977 |
Management | Parsian International Hotels Co. |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 16 |
Floor area | 5,800 m2 |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 250 |
Number of restaurants | 2 |
Website | |
http://enghelab.pih.ir/ |
The Royal Gardens Hotel opened in 1977. It was constructed by the prominent Iranian Jewish Berookhim family.[1][2] The hotel's design was intended to reflect a Persian Garden. With the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution, the Royal Gardens Hotel was badly damaged by rioting mobs on November 5, 1978.[3] The hotel was expropriated from the Berookhim family along with their other holdings in November 1979, and a member of the family, Ebrahim Berookhim, was executed by the revolutionary government in August 1980. The family filed a claim against the Iranian government with the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal for both actions.[4]
After its expropriation, the hotel was renamed the Enghelab Hotel (meaning "Revolution" Hotel in Persian).[5] It later become managed by the state-run Parsian International Hotels Co.