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portant contributions to the tomb and its surrounding.
Around the tomb, there is an intensive building
activity which continues even today. What attracted
my attention most was the fact that the strength of
the tomb and mosque architecture of Iran, caused
even the new structures to preserve the permanent
beauty of the old structures. All the new tombs and
mosques which were buing built Kum, Nişabur, Mashad
and Tehran had resemblences from the classic
Iranian Architecture.
The diameter of the dome of the tomb is 42 meters.
It is 7mt. high and is completely gold plated.
The magnificence of these golden domes can be noticed
even from the distant places with night illumination.
Also, the cloth covering on the mausoleum
was completely gilded. The coverings
wear out because lots of visitors’
touch them. So they are replaced
with new ones in several years.
I’d love to have shared the
surahs on the dome which the 16 th century Caligraphy
Master Ali Rıza Abbasi wrote. However, there are
serious security precautions before entering the tomb,
and no cameras are allowed. By the way,no visitors
are allowed to enter the tomb except for Muslims.
The Three Museums in The Tomb
Are Also Worth Seeing
There are three important museums in the tomb
complex. The first one of these is ‘’The Quran Museum’’.
This museum has more than a hundred Quran
manuscripts. Among these manuscripts, there is also
a manuscript written by Zeynel Abidin. The second
museum, which is called the carpet museum, has
different carpet samples from different periods of
the Iranian history. The most attractive of all these
carpets, beyond doubt, is the one called ‘’seven lovely
cities‘’ carpet. It is mentioned that ten thousand
workers worked during the weaving of this carpet
and it was completed in 14 years, about 30 million
knots being put on it in total. The third museum
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