List of Mausolea - Iran

Iran

See also: List of tombs of Iranian/Persian people

Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization lists several hundred mausoleums in Iran. (See Ferdowsi and Ziyarat articles for some examples).

  • Cyrus the Great's Mausoleum lies in the ruins of Pasargadae, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site

  • Imam Reza shrine, Mausoleum of:
    *Eighth Twelver Shī`a Imām, ‘Alī ar-Ridhā
    (Mashhad)

  • Fātimah al-Ma‘sūmah Mosque, Mausoleum of:
    *Fātimah al-Ma‘sūmah (sister of ‘Alī ar-Ridhā)
    One of Iran's holiest places. The shrine complex includes dozens of seminaries and religious schools
    (Qom)

  • Naqsh-e Rustam where lie The Achaemenid tombs of Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE). Xerxes I(r. 486-465 BCE), Artaxerxes I (r. 465-424 BCE), and Darius II (r. 423-404 BCE). A fifth unfinished one might be that of Artaxerxes III, but is more likely that of Darius III

  • Naqsh-e Rustam

  • Mausoleum of Omar Khayyám, Nishapur

  • Mausoleum of Abdol-samad, built in 1304AD in Natanz.

  • Mausoleum of Abu-Lu'lu'ah, the assassin of Islam's second caliph, Omar ibn al-Khattab, Kashan.

  • Mausoleum of Bayazid Bastami in Bistam

  • Al-Ghazali Mausoleum in Tus

  • Saadi (poet) Mausoleum in Shiraz

  • Farid-al-Din Attar's Mausoleum in Nishapur

  • Mausoleum of Avicenna in Hamedan

  • Imamzadeh Mahruq mausoleum

  • Mazare Shahmir

  • Shazdeh Hosein shrine, Qazvin

  • Imamzadeh Hamzeh, Mahshahr-Hendijan, Khuzestan

  • Shrine of Sheikh Shebeli, Damavand

  • Sheikh Safi's Mausoleum, Ardabil

  • Imamzadeh Saleh Mausoleum in Tehran

  • Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery

  • Mausoleum of Nadir Shah, Mashad

  • Front facade of the Ferdowsi's mausoleum in Tus

  • Tomb of Daniel the writer of Book of Daniel, Susa

  • Ruhollah Khomeini's Mausoleum at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran

  • Maqbaratoshoara or Maqbarat al-Shu'ara' is a Mausoleum for many famous poets in Tabriz

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    Shah Cheragh is a tomb of two brothers Amir Ahmad and Mir Muhammad, both of whom were brothers of Imam Reza in Shiraz

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    Inside Shah Cheragh

  • Mongol Ilkhan Emperor Öljaitü's Mausoleum in Soltaniyeh

  • The Kharāghān twin towers,are mausoleums built in 1053 CE, Qazvin Province

  • The blue turquoise conical dome of the Mausoleum of Hamdollah Mostowfi "the explorer" in Qazvin

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