List of mausoleums in Iran
This is a list of mausoleums in Iran. A mausoleum is a building constructed as a monument enclosing a grave of a person or a group of people.[1] In Iran, a mausoleum can be a standalone building, or it can be attached to a mosque or even function as one.[2] Sometimes such buildings can be known as Imamzadeh.
Pre-Islamic mausoleums
[edit]- Tomb of Artaxerxes I of Persia
- Tomb of Xerxes I
- Tomb of Darius II
- Tomb of Cyrus the Great
- Gur-e-Dokhtar
Unknown period of construction
[edit]Post-Islamic mausoleums
[edit]Ardabil Province
[edit]- Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble
- Tomb of Shaykh Aminuddin Gabriel
- Tomb of Shaykh Haydar
East Azerbaijan Province
[edit]Gilan Province
[edit]Fars Province
[edit]Hamadan Province
[edit]Kerman Province
[edit]Kermanshah Province
[edit]Isfahan Province
[edit]- Monar Jonban
- Al-Rashid Mausoleum
- Baba Ghassem Mausoleum
- Mausoleum of Safavid Princes
- Shrine of Abdul Samad al-Isfahani
- Shahshahan mausoleum
- Imamzadeh Ismail and Shayah Mosque
- Tomb of Roknolmolk in the Roknolmolk Mosque
- Mausoleum of Baba Rokneddin
- Soltan Bakht Agha Mausoleum
- Chehel Dokhtaran mausoleum
- Imamzadeh Darb-e Imam
Razavi Khorasan Province
[edit]- Mausoleum of Ali al-Ridha
- Tomb of Khajeh Rabie
- Tomb of Pir Palandouz
- Mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur
- Mausoleum of Omar Khayyám
- Imamzadeh Mahruq
- Tomb of Jalairs, as well as the tomb of the martyrs of the Iranian Revolution, in Gonbad Kabud Mosque
Tehran Province
[edit]Zanjan Province
[edit]Modern (20th century) mausoleums
[edit]- Tomb of Nader Shah
- Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini
- Mausoleum of Hassan Modarres
- Mausoleum of Reza Shah (destroyed)
See also
[edit]- List of Imamzadeh for a more comprehensive list on the Imamzadeh shrines and mausoleums of Iran
- List of mosques in Iran
References
[edit]- ^ كتابات في الميزان: المقام والمرقد والعتبة، يوسف البيومي، تاريخ الوصول 27 نوفمبر 2013. Archived 2017-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Esposito, John L. 2003. The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. Oxford. p 136.
