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

• Islam portal
• Iran portal

• Islam in Iran
• List of imamzadehs in Iran
• List of mosques in Iran

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