The Chalabioghlou mausoleum, also known as Sheikh Barragh mausoleum, is a historical
octagonal mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...
in the city of
Soltaniyeh, in the
Zanjan Province, in
Iran.
The mausoleum is located 500 m to the southwest of
Dome of Soltaniyeh. The Chalabioghlou mausoleum was built between 1259 and 1284 in the
ilkhanid era. According to the inscriptions, the mausoleum is the burial place of ''Sheikh Barragh Baba'', who was a
mystic in the ilkhanid era. This structure is a tomb tower from the middle Islamic age and from this point of view it is comparable with
Emamzadeh Jafar in
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
.
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Zanjan Province
13th-century architecture