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Tajrish (, ) is a neighbourhood of Tehran, capital of Iran. Administratively it is in Shemiranat County, Tehran province province and serves as the capital of the county. At one time a village, it was later absorbed into the city of Tehran.
The Tajrish neighbourhood is located along the northern edge of Tehran. During the last few decades, it has become popular with the wealthy by virtue of its low levels of pollution. As of 2006, the neighborhood had 86,000 inhabitants. W Tajrish Square itself is known as Sar-e Pol-e Tajrish (سر پل تجریش), "at the Tajrish Bridge". This square is actually a vast bridge on top of a qanat river. In older times the locals used to call this bridge Gowgal, meaning "(The Bridge) of the Cowherd".Journal of Persianate Studies 4 (2011) 246-271 brill.nl/jps The Extinct Dialect of Tajrish: Caspian or Persian? Habib Borjian Encyclopaedia Iranica. p.248.[1]
Until the 1920s, Tajrish and neighbouring were a collection of small villages along Tehran's city border. The area was relatively disconnected from Tehran's urban area with the exception of Old Shemiran Road, currently known as Shariati Avenue. During the Pahlavi Iran, with the construction of Pahlavi Street (now named Valiasr Street) in the 1930s and Modarres Highway, then known as Shahanshahi Boulevard, the Northern suburbs became accessible from downtown and extension became possible.
Iranian linguist Habib Borjian, after examining all the available material concerning this dialect opines that it is a dialect of the Persian and writes: "Tajrishi shows no divergence from the Persid group, despite minor variation with respect to modern standard Persian. It is in verb morphology that we do find in Tajrishi a massive Caspian overlay, imposed on the dialect by means of age-old socio-economic ties with the districts to its north in the Alborz chain. We may thus characterize Tajrishi and other Shemirāni dialects as Persian with a significant Caspian imprint. Surprisingly enough, we find no trace of a Northwestern Iranian substratum in the dialect of Tajrish, nor do we find it in the scanty material available to us about the other extinct vernaculars of Shemirān ... This situation can only attest to an early Persianization of Rey and its adjoining settlements."
Tourist spots in Tajrish are the bazaar and a mausoleum called Imamzadeh Saleh. A number of Shia Islam religious sites are located here, including the mausoleum, a shrine called , and a few Takyeh or religious buildings (such as Takyeh Borzog, Takyeh Pa'in, ).
The square is where Valiasr Street terminates. Valiasr is the longest street in Tehran. It is also one of the busiest transportation hubs in Tehran. Many suburbs are accessible from this square. Tajrish is at the junction of streets that lead to Sa'dabad Palace, Velenjak, Asad Abad, Zafaraniyeh, Elahieh, and Niavaran as well as many of the other places in northern Tehran. A metro station, the northern terminus of line one (the red line) is located here.
Tajrish Bazaar has been built according to architectural style which resembles the Grand Bazaar in downtown Tehran. Some of its arches have been destroyed due to construction of multi-story buildings and its traditional identity has been threatened by irregularity of window shops and external view of new stores. Tajrish Bazaar includes a roofed passageway through which people pass en route to either paying pilgrimage the Emamzadeh Saleh or to the bazaar for purchasing goods.
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