Royal Tehran Hilton Hotel

General Information

Name: Royal Tehran Hilton Hotel
Current name: Parsian Esteghlal International Hotel
Location: Chamran highway, Near to Parkway bridge, Tehran, Iran
Architects: Raglan Squire (British Architect), Heydar Ghiai [→]
Date: 1962
Site Area: 90000 sqm
Type: Hotels

Description

Opened in 1962 as the Royal Tehran Hilton hotel, the hotel was designed by local Iranian architect Heydar Ghiai. The hotel's design consultants also included noted British architect Raglan Squire, who also designed Hilton hotels in Tunis, Bahrain, Nicosia and Jakarta.

The hotel originally consisted of a single tower containing 259 rooms. An additional tower, with 291 more rooms, was constructed in 1972. The hotel's famous guests during this period included Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, King Hussein of Jordan, and astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

The hotel was renamed the Esteghlal Hotel (meaning "Independence" Hotel in Persian) following the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when all foreign hotel management contracts were severed. It is today part of the state-run Parsian International Hotels Co. A third tower is currently under construction.

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