Mausoleum of Poets

Maqbarat-o-shoara (Persian: مقبرةالشعرا) or the Mausoleum of Poets (Persian: Mazār-e Shāerān or Mazār-e Sorāyandegān) is a Maqbara (graveyard) belonging to classical and contemporary poets, mystics and other notable people, located in the Surkhab district of Tabriz in Iran. It was built by Tahmaseb Dolatshahi in the mid-1970s while he was the Secretary of Arts and Cultures of East Azarbaijan.

On the east side of Sayyed Hamzeh's grave and Ghaem Magham's grave, there is a graveyard containing the graves of important poets, mystics, scientists and well-known people of Tabriz. The Mausoleum was first mentioned by the medieval historian Hamdollah Mostowfi in his Nozhat ol-Gholub. Hamdollah mentions it being located in what, at the time, was the Surkhab district of Tabriz.

Since the 1970s, there have been attempts to renovate the graveyard area. Some work has been carried out like the construction of a new symbolic building on this site.

The first poet buried in this complex is Asadi Tusi ().

Notable burials

Asadi Tusi (999–1072) – poet

Qatran Tabrizi (1009–1072) – poet

Anvari Abivardi (1126–1189) – poet

Khaqani (1122–1190) – poet

Mojireddin Bilaqani (d. 1190) – poet

Zahir-al-Din Faryabi (d. 1202) – poet

Shapur Nishapuri (d. 1204) – poet

Shamseddin Sojasi (d. 1206) – poet

Zulfaqar Shirvani (d. 1290) – poet

Humam-i Tabrizi (1238–1314) – poet

Nasrollah Tabib (d. 1339) – calligrapher

Assar Tabrizi (1325–1390) – poet

Maghrebi Tabrizi (1348–1406) – poet

Mani Shirazi (d. 1507) – poet

Lesani Shirazi (d. 1533) – poet

Shakibi Tabrizi (d. 1564) – poet

Mirza Issa Farahani (d. 1822) – vizier of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and Abbas Mirza

Aziz Khan Mokri (d. 1870) – army general

Seqqat ol–Eslam Tabrizi (1861–1911) – Persian constitutional activist

Taher Tabrizi (1888–1976) – calligrapher

Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (Shahriar) (1906–1988) – poet

Mahmoud Melmasi (Azarm) (1917–1991) – poet

Aziz Dowlatabadi (Darvish) (1922–2009) – poet

See also

The Amir Nezam House

Behnam House

House of Seghat ol Islam

Constitutional House of Tabriz

Seyed Hamzeh shrine

References

http://www.eachto.ir

Cemeteries in Iran

Architecture in Iran

Buildings and structures in Tabriz

Tourist attractions in Tabriz