Tarbiyat street
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Tarbiyat is a pedestrian street in center of Tabriz
Tabriz
Tabriz is the fourth largest city and one of the historical capitals of Iran and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters at the junction of the Quri River and Aji River, it was the second largest city in Iran until the late 1960s, one of its former...

. It was built during the Pahlavi Dynasty (the first Pahlavi) and named in memory of Tabriz's mayor Mohammad Ali Khan-e Tarbiyat, who was responsible for the modernization project of Tabriz. The land was originally part of the residential complex belonging to Qajar-Batmanghelich (Shah-e-Nimrouz, the commander of the military forces stationed in Northwestern Iran) which was expropriated by Reza shah shortly after his coup against Ahmad Shah Qajar in 1925.
During Mr. Darvish Zadeh's period (the Tabriz Mayor from 1993 until 1997) this street was closed for cars and rebuilt as a pedestrian street.

This street is currently part of a shopping center in Tabriz which includes a small part of the Tabriz Bazar
Bazaar of Tabriz
The Bazaar of Tabriz is one of the oldest bazaars of the Middle East and the largest covered bazar in the world. It was inscribed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2010....

, known as Shishe Gar Khane. Modern shopping malls in Tabriz include: Shekh Safi, Shams-e Tabrizi, Molana, and some more. The street has a special architecture.
Nowadays it is used as a major shopping center for clothing, shoes and other fashionable items. The street is one of the busiest pedestrian ways in Tabriz' city center.
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