Bagh-e Ferdows

Ferdows Garden
The Cinema Museum, Ferdows Garden.
Location	Shemiran (northern Tehran), Iran
Coordinates	35°43′34″N 51°18′31″E / 35.7261°N 51.3086°E / 35.7261; 51.3086
Area	2.6 miles (4.2 km)

Ferdows Garden (Persian: باغ فردوس‎‎ Bāq e Ferdows) is a historical complex located in the district of Tajrish in Shemiran (northern Tehran), Iran.

The complex dates back to the reign of the Qajar dynasty, and includes a mansion which houses the Cinema Museum of Iran since 2009.

By the time of the Achaemenid Empire, the term pairidaēza (Avestan) referred to extensive gardens built all over the empire. It derived from Proto-Iranian paridaiźa, literally meaning "circular boundary". Modern Persian ferdows (فردوس) and pardis (پردیس) are derivatives of the same word, which occurred in Greek as parádeisos (παράδεισος) and entered English as paradise.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, as well as the Dehkhoda Dictionary, this word entered Hebrew as pardēs (פַּרְדֵּס), following the arrival of the Jews in Babylon in the 5th century BC. In the sections of the Old Testament that predate this arrival, the notions of "heaven" and "hell" are not specific; only later has pārdēs, originally meaning "garden" and "orchard", been endowed with the spiritual meaning that is signified by this word.

Dehkhoda notes that pardēs has been used as a synonym for the Hebrew word gān, meaning "the Garden of Eden". He also states that the word firdaws, used twice in the Quran, has its root in Judaism and Christianity.