List of mausoleums in Iran

This is a list of mausoleums in Iran, sorted by period established. 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 a mosque.[2] Sometimes such buildings can be known as an Imamzadeh.

Mausoleum name Established Location Image Notes
Era Year (CE) City/village Province
Tomb of Artaxerxes I of Persia Achaemenid Marvdasht Fars [3]
Tomb of Xerxes I Achaemenid Marvdasht Fars [3]
Tomb of Darius II Achaemenid Marvdasht Fars [3]
Tomb of Cyrus the Great Achaemenid 6th century BCE Pasargadae Fars [4]
Gur-e-Dokhtar Achaemenid 6th century BCE Dashtestan Bushehr [5]
Fakhrigah Pre-Islamic
(unknown)		 near Mahabad West Azerbaijan [6]
Mausoleum of Ali al-Ridha
at the Imam Reza shrine		 Abbasid 818 Mashhad Razavi Khorasan [7]
Tomb of Nizam al-Mulk Seljuk c. 1090s Esfahan Isfahan [8]
Imamzadeh Chaharmanar
(closed since 1965)		 Seljuk c. 11th century Tabriz East Azerbaijan [9]
Al-Rashid Mausoleum Seljuk 1138 Esfahan Isfahan [10]
Shah Cheragh Seljuk 12th century Shiraz Fars [11]
Tomb of Wais-e Nāzār Seljuk Kermanshah Kermanshah [12]
Tomb of the Prophet Habakkuk Seljuk 13th century Tuyserkan Hamadan [13]
Chahar Padshahan Karkiya 13th century Lahijan Gilan [14]
Tomb of Saadi 13th century Shiraz Fars [15]
Chehel Dokhtaran Mausoleum Ilkhanid 13th century Kashan Isfahan [16]
Monar Jonban Ilkhanid 1316 Esfahan Isfahan [17]
Mausoleum of Prophet Qeydar Ilkhanid 1319 Qeydar Zanjan [18]
Baba Ghassem Mausoleum Ilkhanid 1341 Esfahan Isfahan [19]
Soltan Bakht Agha Mausoleum Ilkhanid 1375 Esfahan Isfahan [20]
Tomb of Shaykh Haydar Ilkhanid 14th century Meshginshahr Ardabil [21]
Mausoleum of Awn and Zayd, sons of Ali Ilkhanid 14th century Eynali, Tabriz East Azerbaijan [22]
Mausoleum of Baba Rokneddin Ilkhanid 14th century Esfahan Isfahan [23]
Tomb of Bibi Dokhtaran Ilkhanid Shiraz Fars [3]
Shahshahan Mausoleum Timurid 1449 Esfahan Isfahan [24]
Tomb of Qara Qoyunlu emir Jahan Shah Qarā Qoyunlu 1465 Tabriz East Azerbaijan [25]
Mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur Timurid 15th century Nishapur Razavi Khorasan [26]
Tomb of Shaykh Zahed Gilani Safavid 15th century Lahijan Gilan [27]
Tomb of Pir Palandouz Safavid 1577 Mashhad Razavi Khorasan [3]
Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble Safavid c. 16th century Ardabil Ardabil [28]
Tomb of Khajeh Rabie Safavid 1617 Mashhad Razavi Khorasan [29]
Tomb of Shaykh Aminuddin Gabriel Safavid 1622 Kalkhuran Sheykh Ardabil [30]
Mausoleum of Safavid Princes Safavid 1632 Esfahan Isfahan [31]
Javan Mard-e Ghassab Tomb Qajar Shahr-e Ray Tehran [32]
Mushtaqieh Dome Qajar 1838 Kerman Kerman [33]
Tomb of Hassan Modarres Pahlavi 1943 Kashmar Razavi Khorasan [34]
Mausoleum of Reza Shah
(destroyed)		 Pahlavi 1950 Ray Tehran [35]
Mausoleum of Omar Khayyám Pahlavi 1963 Nishapur Razavi Khorasan [36]
Tomb of Nader Shah Pahlavi 1963 Mashhad Razavi Khorasan [37]
Saeb Mausoleum Pahlavi 1967 Esfahan Isfahan [38]
Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini 2025 Tehran Tehran [39]

See also

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