Tehran War Cemetery
Tehran War Cemetery is a war cemetery located in Gholhak Garden in the Iranian capital city of Tehran and located within the British Embassy residential compound and is where over 500 British and Commonwealth soldiers who perished in the First and Second World Wars are buried.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Farhang Movie Theater and British Embassy’s Gholhak Garden.
Farhang Movie Theater
Movie theater
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Cinema Farhang is a movie theater in Tehran in Iran. It is one of the official theaters that plays foreign films in Tehran. Farhang Movie Theater is situated 260 metres west of Tehran War Cemetery.
British Embassy’s Gholhak Garden
Garden
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Gholhak Garden is a British overseas diplomatic compound in the northern Tehran neighborhood of Gholhak in Iran, about 3 miles from the centre of Tehran. British Embassy’s Gholhak Garden is situated 400 metres north of Tehran War Cemetery.
Gholhak
Metro station
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Gholhak Metro Station is a station of Tehran Metro Line 1. It is located in Shariati Street in Gholhak neighborhood. The neighboring stations are Shariati and Shahid Sadr. It was opened on 19 May 2009. Gholhak is situated 440 metres south of Tehran War Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include District 3 and Tajrish.
Tajrish
Suburb
Tajrish is a neighbourhood of Tehran, capital of Iran. Administratively it is in Shemiranat County, Tehran province and serves as the capital of the county. Tajrish is situated 3 km north of Tehran War Cemetery.
District 1
Suburb
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Shemiranat County is in Tehran province, Iran. Its capital is Tajrish. District 1 is situated 3½ km north of Tehran War Cemetery.
Tehran War Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: commonwealth war graves cemetery in Iran
- Categories: Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery and burial
- Location: Tehran, Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.77662° or 35° 46′ 36″ northLongitude
51.43874° or 51° 26′ 20″ eastOpen location code
8H7HQCGQ+JFOpenStreetMap ID
way 475486170OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q20988013
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In Other Languages
From Japanese to Persian—“Tehran War Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “英連邦戦死者墓地 (テヘラン市)”
- Japanese: “英連邦戦死者墓地”
- Persian: “گورستان متفقین در تهران”
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Highlights include مسجد اعظم قلهک and کلانتری ۱۲۴ قلهک.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tehran War Cemetery”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.