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. In Iran, a mausoleum can be a standalone building, or it can be attached to a mosque or even function as one. Sometimes such buildings can be known as Imamzadeh.
Pre-Islamic mausoleums
Achaemenid Empire
- 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
References
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