Tomb of
Nader Shah
Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian h ...
is a building in
Mashhad
Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...
designed by
Hooshang Seyhoun
Houshang Seyhoun, ( fa, هوشنگ سیحون) (August 22, 1920 – May 26, 2014) was an Iranian architect, sculptor, painter, scholar and professor. He studied fine arts at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and earned a de ...
.
History
After Nader's successful campaign against the
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...
, he returned to his homeland with immense wealth: the peacock throne, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, and “700 elephants, 4,000 camels and 12,000 horses carrying wagons all laden with gold, silver and precious stones”. Hiding his loot in the town of Kalat, Nader immediately ordered the Mughal craftsmen whom he had brought to Persia to build him a grandiose tomb in Mughal style — the Kakh-e-Khorshid, or ‘Palace of the Sun’.
Nader Shah’s assassination meant the tomb was never fully completed. The Kakhe-e-Khorshid was turned into a residence palace by various tribal leaders and Nader Shah’s body remained un-commemorated until the 1960s when a concrete monument was constructed for him in the vicinity of a heavily polluted traffic intersection in Mashhad.
Interior
Despite its incomplete exterior, the interior of the Khorshid is fully refined: each doorway is decorated by miniature paintings and Mughal frescoes.
Gallery
File:Tombstone of Nader and Ferdowsi, at the the Mashhad 70s.jpg, Tombstone of Nader and Ferdowsi, at the Mashhad 1970s
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File:مجسمه ی نادرشاه افشار در موزه نادر مشهد - panoramio.jpg
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Sources
Mausoleums in Iran
Hooshang Seyhoun buildings
National works of Iran
Tourist attractions in Razavi Khorasan Province
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