List of mausoleums in Iran explained

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

• 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

• Fakhrigah

Post-Islamic mausoleums

Ardabil Province

• Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble
• Tomb of Shaykh Aminuddin Gabriel
• Tomb of Shaykh Haydar

East Azerbaijan Province

• Tomb of Qara Qoyunlu emir Jahan Shah
• Mausoleum of Awn and Zayd, sons of Ali
• Imamzadeh Chaharmanar

Gilan Province

• Tomb of Shaykh Zahed Gilani
• Chahar Padshahan

Fars Province

• Tomb of Bibi Dokhtaran
• Tomb of Saadi
• Shah Cheragh

Hamadan Province

• Tomb of the Prophet Habakkuk

Kerman Province

• Mushtaqieh Dome

Kermanshah Province

• Tomb of Wais-e Nāzār

Isfahan Province

• 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

• 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

• Javan Mard-e Ghassab Tomb

Zanjan Province

• Mausoleum of Prophet Qeydar

Modern (20th century) mausoleums

• Tomb of Nader Shah
• Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini
• Mausoleum of Hassan Modarres
• Mausoleum of Reza Shah (destroyed)

See also

• List of Imamzadeh for a more comprehensive list on the Imamzadeh shrines and mausoleums of Iran
• List of mosques in Iran

Notes and References

1. http://www.kitabat.info/subject.php?id=29761 كتابات في الميزان: المقام والمرقد والعتبة
2. Esposito, John L. 2003. The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. Oxford. p 136.