Constitution House of Tabriz

Birthplace of Iran's 1906 Constitutional Revolution, now a museum

The Constitution House, or Khaneh Mashruteh, is a beautiful Qajar-era courtyard mansion that played a central role in Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906. Local leaders met here to organise resistance against Mohammad Ali Shah's attempts to dissolve the new parliament, and the house became a symbol of the movement that forced the monarchy to accept constitutional limits on its power.

Today it functions as a museum of the revolution, with original furniture, weapons, documents, and rooms reconstructed as they would have looked in 1907. The carved wooden balconies and stained-glass windows in the main hall are worth a visit on architectural grounds alone. A short walk from the Grand Bazaar.

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The wooden balcony on the second floor is where Sattar Khan and Bagher Khan rallied the people of Tabriz during the 1908 siege by the Shah's forces. When Russian Cossacks finally broke the resistance, both men became national heroes of a movement that gave Iran its first constitution.