Takyeh Dowlat

{{short description|Royal takyeh in Tehran, Iran}}

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| caption = Takyeh Dowlat by Kamal-ol-Molk

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| location = Tehran, Iran

| coordinates = {{coord|35|40|42.65|N|51|25|15.93|E}}

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| genre = Takyeh
Theatre
First Constituent assembly of Iran

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| opened = 1868

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| demolished = 1946

| owner = Royal court of Iran (Qajar dynasty)

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| architect = Hossein-Ali Mehrin

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The Takyeh Dowlat ({{langx|fa|تکیه دولت|lit=State Takyeh}}{{cite book|title=Iran in days of old|page=164|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOptAAAAMAAJ|author=Rayḥānah Shahristānī|year=1987|quote=the 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 1868Abbas Amanat. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L-xt4WkT4WIC Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy], p. 435. by the order of 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.{{cite encyclopedia | title=TA'ZIA | encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Iranica | accessdate=2010-06-15|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/tazia}} Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin said on his first visit that it was comparable to Verona Arena.

According to Karim Pirnia, Hossein-Ali Mehrin was the architect of this building.Mohammad Karim Pirnia, Sabk Shenasi Mi'mari Irani (Study of styles in Iranian architecture), M. Karim Pirnia. 2005. {{ISBN|964-96113-2-0}} pp.134-135