Record stores in Tehran

Record shops reward the patient digger. Tehran, Tehran has 7 mapped right now. That's 7 record shops mapped around Tehran. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Tehran (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include گالری موسیقی اری and کارگاه سنتورسازی سالاری, plus مرکز موسیقی پاز. If a record shop's missing from Tehran's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Tehran record lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Tehran

1 of the 7 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

2 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

Most of the record stores in Tehran list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Tehran record crawl

The efficient Tehran record crawl strings these together: گالری موسیقی اری, کارگاه سنتورسازی سالاری on فرجام, مرکز موسیقی پاز on پاسداران, فروشگاه موسیقی مهران موزیک, موزیک ستایش, گالری وینیل استودیو on 10 ۵, and آموزشگاه موسیقی می‌رسی — 7 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Tehran

Digging in Tehran? A few habits pay off:

• The listening station is the test at گالری موسیقی اری. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Learn your labels at کارگاه سنتورسازی سالاری. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Tehran — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Tehran can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 7 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.