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Shahrak-e Qods, Tehran — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Shahrak-e Qods, also known as Shahrak-e Gharb, is a district of Tehran in Tehran Province, one of the neighbourhoods of the Iranian capital.
About Shahrak-e Qods
Where to stay in Shahrak-e Qods
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Shahrak-e Qods is a district of Tehran, better known to locals as Shahrak-e Gharb, and it is not where most travellers book a bed. The capital holds the hotels. Visitors who want to be near Shahrak-e Qods generally stay elsewhere in Tehran and cross the city to reach it, since lodging gathers in other parts of the Iranian capital.
You base yourself in Tehran, then come out to the district.
About Shahrak-e Qods
What are the main landmarks in Shahrak-e Qods?
Shahrak-e Qods carries no famous monuments in the record. Its name is its best-known marker. The district, long called Shahrak-e Gharb, sits among the neighbourhoods of Tehran without the citadels or museums that draw sightseers to the centre of the capital.
The streets are the attraction. For landmark-hunting, Shahrak-e Qods sends its visitors into Tehran proper, the heart of the Iranian capital in Tehran Province.
What is the history of Shahrak-e Qods?
Shahrak-e Qods grew as a district of Tehran, taking the newer name of an older quarter. For years it was Shahrak-e Gharb. The neighbourhood rose within the expanding capital of Tehran Province, its fortunes tied to the city rather than to any separate town history of its own, and its two names mark the layers of that growth.
The capital shaped it. Shahrak-e Qods belongs to the story of Tehran, the Iranian capital that contains it.
Where is Shahrak-e Qods?
Shahrak-e Qods lies within Tehran, the Iranian capital in Tehran Province, one of the neighbourhoods known together as Shahrak-e Gharb.
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Updated July 2026