Dar-ol Fonoun

Dar ol-Fonoun دارالفنون|house of the techniques , was the first institution of higher learning in Iran, founded in 1851.

Founded by Amir Kabir, at the time Vizier of Nasseredin Shah, Dar-Al Fonoun was in the beginning conceived like a polytechnic school in order to educate the young people of the Persian high society in Médecine, Ingénierie, military sciences and Géologie. It was an public institution, financed by the state, which developed during the years until transforming itself into university: the University of Teheran.

The institute was designed by Mirza Reza Mohandes , which had studied in the United Kingdom and builds by the architect Muhammad Taqi-khan Memar-Bashi under the supervision of the prince Qajar Bahram Mirza . Installations such as an assembly, a theater, a library, a cafeteria and a press were built for the institute.

This school of elite exempted courses with 287 students in 1889, and had delivered diplomas with 1100 students about 1891. At that time, the institute counted 16 Iranian professors and 26 European professors (of which many French).

80 years after its opening, Dar ol-fonoun is refitted to become one of the colleges important of Teheran. After the advent of the Islamic Republic it becomes the school of the Masters and of the teachers and after several changes it is definitively closed in 1996. Since 1999 the restoration of the building is undertaken by the Administration of the Cultural Heritage of Iran. It became at the same time the center of file of State education.

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