Related to Mashhad city (located in Khorasan Razavi province)
Also known as: Mausoleum of Imam Reza, Marghad-e Emam Reza (Farsi), Haram-e Emaam Reza (Farsi)
The Imam Reza Shrine Complex was developed on the site of the eighth Imam's grave, in what was at the time of his death in 817 the small village of Sanabad. In the tenth century the town acquired the name Mashhad, 'Place of Martyrdom' (used for any burial place of a muslim martyr), and became the most sacred site in Persia.
The city of Mashad is situated 909 km. from Tehran in a plain between the two mountain ranges of Binalood and Hezar Masjed. Mashad enjoys a temperate, mountainous climate.
In the year 202 AH, after the martyrdom of Imam Reza (AS) in a place around Toos called Sanabad which ...
The construction of this museum had begun in the year 1956 AH and finalized in the year 1961.
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