Restored during the Ilkhanid, Safavid and Qajarid eras, this mausoleum has always been an important religious destination for Shias in Iran. The very first building known as the shrine of Shah Abdul Azim, a descendant of Imam Hassan, was built by the order of Buyid rulers and commissioned by Majd al-Molk Qomi in the 10th century. 

The sanctuary in the shrine is a square-shaped, 8 by 8-meter structure, topped with four squinches (gushvar) on each corner. These squinches convert the first four-sided structure to an eight-sided structure and then to an eighteen-sided one to be finally surmounted by a dome. This is an architectural feature of the Seljuk era which confirms th...

Ibn Babawayh (Sheikh Saduq) Cemetery

Originally built during the reign of Samanids (819-999), this cemetery has been ruined many times, and for various reasons, such as the Mongol invasion (1219-1221 AD), several civil wars and also natural disasters. There is an interesting story behind the construction of the current cemetery which occurred during the Qajar era. Once, as Haj Mohammad Baqer Khansari writes in Rozat al-Janat, heavy rain destroyed and made a hole in the old cemetery. Workers went to repair the destruction, but they found an intact corpse and an inscription in the cellar of the mausoleum. Based on the inscription, the mausoleum was built 800 years ago. By the way, th...

is a historical hill, which was excavated by a team of archeologists, headed by Eric Schmidt in 1934-1936. The findings include over 5,100 prehistoric shreds and thirty-one prehistoric human burials. The items are held in the museums at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The studies on the crafts show a wide variety of forms, materials, sizes, weights, and types dating to the prehistoric phases. This 5000-year-old hill is mostly known as the small Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement. Accordingly, “ Horizon”, a title defining a special tradition of pottery extended over a number of geographical regions of Iran, is synon...