Iran · 19th century
Sardar Castle ranks #7,596 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #75 of the 172 mapped in Iran. Founded 1868, it is older than 6% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Iran compares in the castle statistics.
Sardar Castle was built by Sardaar Aziz Khaan Mukri in 1868 (1285 a.h.) near the great reservoir of Bukan that is presently named after its founder as Sardar Azizkhan Castle.
The castle has been built on top of a hill 50×60 metres in diameter and 13 metres height and its main building materials are 20×20 cm bricks with gley mortar and timbers.
During 1946–1973 the castle was turned into police headquarters, post office, and school respectively and finally was destroyed completely in 1983 and replaced by a newly built structure that was used as Basij (Mobilization) Satrion.
Text adapted from “Sardar Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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