Sa'at Tower
Sa'at Tower also known as Tabriz Municipality Palace (Persian: کاخ شهرداری تبریز, also Romanized as Sā'at Tower) is a building in Tabriz which is used as the city hall and main office of the municipal government of Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, Iran. The Municipality Palace features a hall, a clock tower, and a small garden.
The architect was Avedis Ohanjanian.
History
Before World War II it was used by the Azerbaijan Democrat Party as the Government Office. When Iranian troops regained control of Tabriz in 1947, the building was again used as the Tabriz municipal central office. In the early 2000s parts of it became a municipal museum.
During the 1980s, in an attempt to install an elevator, one of Sa'at's patios was damaged. The dome at the top of the Sa'at tower was reconstructed in 2008, with a new khaki coloured fiber glass replacing the original silver coloured dome. Since 2007, part of the building houses the Municipal Museum.