Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi (Persian: میرزا ابراهیم خان صحاف‌باشی; c. 1855–1922) was a pioneering Iranian photographer and cinematographer.

In 1904, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahhafbashi opened the first movie theater in Tehran.

He was also the man who opened the first "Hamām-e nomré" (a kind of public shower with separate bathrooms) in Iran. (History of Iran's Cinema, by Jamal Omid. In Abolqasem Rezaee's quotes about his father, Mirza Ebrahim.)

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