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Key facts
- Type
- Telecommunication, commercial, restaurant, observation
- Location
- Tehran , Iran
- Opening
- 7 October 2008
- Cost
- 266 billion tomans
- Owner
- Municipality of Tehran
- Operator
- Boland Payeh Co.
- Height
- 435 meters
- Antenna spire
- 435.0 m (1,427 ft)
- Roof
- 315.0 m (1,033 ft)
- Top floor
- 312.0 m (1,024 ft)
- Floor area
- 154,000 m (1,660,000 sq ft)
- Architect
- Mohammad Reza Hafezi
- Main contractor
- Boland Payeh Co.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tourist attraction
- Country
- Iran
- Area
- 12000
- Elevation
- 1436
- Material used
- reinforced concrete
- Location
- Tehran
- Official website
- tehranmiladtower.ir
- Image
- برج میلاد و کوه دماوند از آزادراه تهران کرج - panoramio.jpg
- Height
- 435
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Encyclopedic overview
The Milad Tower (Persian: برج میلاد, romanized: Borj-e Milād, lit. 'Birth Tower') is a multi-purpose tower in Tehran, Iran. It is the sixth-tallest tower and the world's first telecommunication tower in terms of the usage area of the top structure and the tallest tower in Iran and the 24th-tallest freestanding structure in the world. The construction of the tower took about 11 years and 7 months.
It is located between Shahrak-e Gharb and the district of Gisha, standing at 435 meters from the base to the tip of the antenna. The head consists of a large pod with 12 floors, the roof of which is at 315 meters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milad Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.