Alborz College ( Dabīristān-i Alborz ) is a high school in Tehran. Originally known as the American College of Tehran and established in 1873 as a Presbyterian missionary institution for boys, it was renamed in the early 1930s. In 1875 Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qājār (r. 1264-1313/1848-96) agreed to the establishment of a new building for the school within Tehran's Armenian quarter (Mūsavī Mākūʾī, 11). By 1891 the school had a total of 135 students, over half of whom were Muslims (Armajani, 822). In 1898, following his