{"id":159152,"date":"2025-09-05T21:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=159152"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:44:52","slug":"borzoo-shahpour-parsi-irans-first-modern-hotel-and-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=159152","title":{"rendered":"Borzoo Shahpour Parsi: Iran\u2019s First Modern Hotel and Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Borzoo Shahpour Parsi (Mehrshahi), a progressive Zoroastrian, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, built Iran\u2019s first modern hotel and cinema in Qazvin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His grand hotel, constructed between 1299\u20131300\u202fSH (1920\u20131921\u202fCE) in the western part of Qazvin\u2019s Safavid citadel, was later registered as a national heritage site in 1384\u202fSH (2005\u202fCE).<\/p>\n<p>In 1311\u202fSH (1932\u202fCE), he opened Qazvin\u2019s first modern open-air cinema, \u201cShahpour Cinema,\u201d seating 500\u2013700 spectators. After a fire nine years later, it was rebuilt, only to be destroyed again in 1356\u202fSH (1977\u202fCE) and never restored. While an earlier cinema, \u201cMayak,\u201d had opened in 1309\u202fSH (1930\u202fCE), it was Shahpour Parsi\u2019s theater that brought a truly modern cinema experience to Qazvin, complete with projectors and outdoor screenings in the hotel garden.<\/p>\n<p>Borzoo Shahpour Parsi is remembered as a trailblazer in Iran\u2019s hotel and cinema industries, leaving a lasting legacy of innovation and vision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borzoo Shahpour Parsi (Mehrshahi), a progressive Zoroastrian, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, built Iran\u2019s first modern hotel and cinema in Qazvin. His grand hotel, constructed between 1299\u20131300\u202fSH (1920\u20131921\u202fCE) in the western part of Qazvin\u2019s Safavid citadel, was later registered as a national heritage site in 1384\u202fSH (2005\u202fCE). In 1311\u202fSH (1932\u202fCE), he opened Qazvin\u2019s first modern open-air cinema, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":159153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1176],"class_list":["post-159152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-borzoo-shahpour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}