Damavand College

Damavand College (; romanization: Madreseh-ye Ālī-ye Damāvand; and later, Dāneshkadeh-ye Damāvand) was founded in 1968 as a private institution of higher learning for women and run by an international community and by American Presbyterian Missionaries. In 1974, it became a public college, offering a four-year intercultural program in liberal arts. In 1976, the campus was designed by William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) and Nezam Amery of the Amery-Kamooneh-Khosrovi Group. It was one of the last educational centers that closed down preceding the February 1979 events within the Islamic Iranian Revolution. The former campus of Damavand College is now occupied by Payame Noor University. History Damavand College takes its name from Mount Damavand, which rises out of the Alborz Range north of the city of Tehran. A precursor to Damavand College was the Iran Bethel School, which was established in c. 1874 by the same American Presbyterian Missionaries, other schools by these Missionaries in Tehran include Sage College, and Alborz College (also known as the American College of Tehran).