Arg e Tabriz

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The US flag flies over The US Consulate near Arg e Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, during Iran's Constitutionalist Revolution. The Arg was attacked and bombed by 4000 Russian troops in December of 1911. The Persians held out for four days. While the US consulate was in the line of fire, some Americans like Howard Baskerville, took to arms, helping the people of Iran.

Arg e Ali-Shah also known as Arg e Tabriz, is a remnant of a fortress built in the Ilkhanate period. Currently it is placed in the center of Tabriz, in Iran.

Historians belive that it was used as a military castle but clerics claim that the structure was initially used as a mosque in its early days, but during the Qajar era was used as a military post, and storage facility for weapons. It is important to mention that in Persian Ark means castle.

It also played an important role in the Constitutionalist war of Iran in the early 1900s against Mohammad Ali Shah of the Qajar dynasty.

After revolution large parts of the building is destroyed by the cleric people to prepare a new place for Friday parying in Tabriz. The structure today stands 28 meters high, and is still used as part of a space for holding friday prayers in Tabriz.