Imamzadeh Abdollah ( fa, امامزاده عبدالله) is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

and one of many

imamzadeh An imamzadeh () is a Persian language, Persian term with two related meanings: a type of holy person in Shia Islam, and the shrine-tomb of such a person. Firstly, it means an immediate descendant of a Shia, Shi'i Imamah (Shia doctrine), Imam. T ...

shrines in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. It is located in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

's southern Ray district.

Notable burials

*Hossein-Qoli Khan Nezam os-Saltaneh ( ru) (1832–1908) –

Prime Minister of Iran The Prime Minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century. It began in 1906 during the Qajar dynasty and into the start of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1923 and into the 1979 Iranian Revolution ...

(1906–07) *Agha Baba Khazeni (1850–1920) *Reza-Qoli Khan Nezam os-Saltaneh ( fa) (1867–1924) – politician *

Adib Pishavari Adib Pishavari ( fa, ادیب پیشاوری), also known as Sayyed Ahmad B. Sehab al-Din Razawi (1844 - 1930), was a Sufi scholar who, according to his family tree, traced his ancestry back to Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi, Omar Sohravardi an ...

( ur) (1844–1930) – Pakistani scholar and poet * Javad Khan Saad od-Dowleh (1856–1930) – politician *

Abdolhossein Teymourtash Abdolhossein Teymourtash ( fa, عبدالحسین تیمورتاش; 25 September 1883 – 3 October 1933) was an influential Iranian statesman who served as the first minister of court of the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1932, and is credited w ...

(1881—1933) – politician *Emad ol-Kottab ( ru) (1868–1936) – calligrapher * Sheikh Khazal (1863–1936) – politician *

Taqi Arani Taqi Arani ( fa, تقی ارانی; September 5, 1903 – February 4, 1940), was a professor of chemistry, left-wing Iranian political activist, and the founder and editor of the Marxism, Marxist magazine ''Donya (magazine), Donya'' (''The Wor ...

(1903–1940) –

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activist *Prince Mohammad-Hashem Mirza Sheikh ol-Raees ( fa) (1880–1940) – Qajar prince and poet *Ebrat Naeini ( fa) (1865–1942) – poet *Vahid Dastgerdi ( fa) (1879–1942) – poet *Taghi Shayegan ( fa) (d. 1943) – musician *

Soleiman Eskandari Soleiman Mirza Eskandari ( fa, سلیمان اسکندری; 1875 – 7 January 1944) was an Iranian Qajar prince and socialist politician. A civil servant and constitutionalist activist, he served as a member of parliament for four consecutive term ...

(1877–1944) – politician *Habibollah Zolfonoun ( fa) (1860–1947) – scholar *Sohrab Diba ( fa) (1899–1947) – army officer and father of

Empress Farah Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi ( fa, فرح پهلوی, née Farah Diba ( fa, فرح دیبا, label=none); born 14 October 1938) is the widow of the last List of monarchs of Persia, Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was successively Queen and Empress ( ...

*Abdolhossein Shahnazi ( fa) (d. 1948) – musician *Mehdi Shariat-Razavi ( fa) (1932–1953) – political activist *Ahmad Qandchi ( fa) (1934–1953) – political activist *Mostafa Bozorgnia ( fa) (1934–1953) – political activist *Ezzatollah Siamak ( fa) (d. 1954) – a founder of

Tudeh Military Network The Officers' Organization ( fa, سازمان افسران) or the Military Organization ( fa, سازمان نظامی) of the Tudeh Party, also known as Tudeh Military Network, was an intelligence gathering network that infiltrated the Iranian Arm ...

*Toghrol Afshar ( fa) (1933–1956) – journalist *Abdollah Ahmadieh ( fa) (1886–1959) – scholar *Abolfazl Lesani ( fa) (1897–1959) – journalist *

Nima Yooshij Nimā Yushij ( fa, نیما یوشیج) (11 November 1895 – 4 January 1960), also called Nimā (), born Ali Esfandiāri (), was an Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called ''she'r-e now'' (, lit. "new p ...

(1897–1960) – poet (in 1993, his body reburied in his house in Yush, Mazandaran) *Sadegh Sarmad ( fa) (1907–1960) – politician *Asghar Tafakkori ( fa) (1911–1960) – actor * Ali Nasr (1895–1961) – dramatist * Ahmad-Hossein Adl (1889–1963) – politician *

Fazlollah Zahedi Fazlollah Zahedi ( fa, فضل‌الله زاهدی, Fazlollāh Zāhedi, pronounced ; 17 May 1892 – 2 September 1963) was an Iranian lieutenant general and statesman who replaced the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh through a coup d'é ...

(1892–1963) –

(1953–55) *

Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi Lieutenant general Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (1884–1965) was a military leader and cabinet Minister of Iran. Born in 1884 in Isfahan, of an aristocratic Persian family, he is one of the planners of the coup d'état of Reza Pahlavi, Colonel Mohamma ...

(1884–1965) – army general *Doust-Ali Moayyeri ( fa) (1874–1966) – artist * Hossein Qollar-Aqasi (1890–1966) – painter *

Iskandar Mirza Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza ( bn, ইস্কান্দার আলী মির্জা; ur, ; 13 November 1899 – 13 November 1969), , was a Pakistani Bengali general officer and civil servant who was the first President of Pakista ...

(1899–1969) – 1st

President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.fa) (1888–1970) – politician *Mehdi Bamdad ( fa) (1897–1973) – historian and biographer *Nader Arasteh ( de) (1893–1974) – diplomat *Jalal Afshar ( fa) (1894–1974) – scholar *Abbas Masoudi ( fa) (1895–1974) – journalist and politician *Mohammad Mehran ( fa) (1898–1974) – mayor of Tehran *Azizollah Zarghami ( fa) (1884–1978) – army general *Habibiollah Morad ( fa) (1906–1978) – actor *

Abdolali Badrei Abdol Ali Badrei (29 March 1921 – 11 February 1979) was an Iranian lieutenant general and the last commander of the Imperial Iranian Army and the Imperial Guard. He was one of the hardline senior military officers and was assassinated during th ...

(1919–1979) –

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general *Gholamhossein Zahireddini ( fa) (1911–1981) – musician *

Ali Dashti Ali Dashti ( fa, علی دشتی, pronounced ; 31 March 1897 – January 16, 1982) was an Iranian rationalist of the twentieth century. Dashti was also an Iranian senator. Life Born into a Persian family in Dashti in Bushehr Province, I ...

(1897–1982) – politician *Mahmoud Karimi ( fa) (1927–1984) – musician * Ali-Akbar Shahnazi (1897–1985) – musician *Badr-ol-Moluk Bamdad ( fa) (1898–1987) – journalist and activist *Reza Sarrafzadeh ( fa) (1899–1987) – politician *Mohsen Moghaddam ( fa) (1900–1987) – scholar *Mehdi Barkashli ( fa) (1912–1988) – musician *Mohammad-Ali Safarian ( fa) (1929–1988) – translator *

Kazem Hassibi Kazem Hassibi (Hasibi) ( fa, کاظم حسیبی) (born Tehran, October 1906 – died Tehran, October 28, 1990) was an Iranian academic, parliamentarian, National Front leader, and oil adviser to Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh during Iran's oil ...

(1906–1990) – politician *Mohammad-Taghi Qomi ( fa) (1910–1990) – cleric *Hassan Mirkhani ( fa) (1912–1990) – calligrapher *Majid Mohseni ( fa) (1923–1990) – actor *Hossein Amirfazli ( fa) (1920–1992) – actor *Abbas Mehrpooya ( fa) (1927–1992) – singer * Ali-Reza Afzalipour (1909–1993) – philanthropist *Abolhassan Varzi ( fa) (1914–1994) – poet *

Yadollah Sahabi Yadollah Sahabi (25 February 1905 – 12 April 2002) was a prominent Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician. A close associate of Mohammad Mosaddegh and Mehdi Bazargan, Sahabi was an active campaigner for the nationalization of the Ira ...

(1906–2002) – politician * Fakhereh Saba (1920–2007) – singer *

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(1919–2008) – scholar * Touran Mirhadi (1927–2016) – scholar *Pouran Shariat-Razavi ( fa) (1934–2019) – scholar * Ali Mirzaei (1929–2020) – wrestler * Baktash Abtin (1974–2022) – writer

Notable burials

See also