{"id":705,"date":"2023-02-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zahramansoori.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2023-01-04T23:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T20:16:29","slug":"khayyam-monument-mashhad-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zahramansoori.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/04\/khayyam-monument-mashhad-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Khayyam Monument &#8211; Mashhad &#8211; Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Mausoleum of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omar_Khayyam\">Omar Khayyam<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Persian_language\">Persian<\/a>: \u0622\u0631\u0627\u0645\u06af\u0627\u0647 \u0639\u0645\u0631 \u062e\u06cc\u0627\u0645 ) is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_architecture\">modern<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mausoleum\">mausoleum<\/a>&nbsp;of white marble erected over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omar_Khayyam\">Omar Khayyam<\/a>&#8216;s headstone located on the south-east of the city of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nishapur\">Nishapur<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\">Iran<\/a>. This mausoleum is a symbol of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iranian_architecture\">modern Persian architecture<\/a>&nbsp;and is part of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran_National_Heritage_List\">national heritage<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\">Iran<\/a>. This monument was built during the reign of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pahlavi_dynasty\">Pahlavi dynasty<\/a>&nbsp;and was designed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hooshang_Seyhoun\">Hooshang Seyhoun<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reconstruction of the Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam in Nishapur was commissioned by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reza_Shah\">Reza Shah<\/a>. Omar&#8217;s previous tomb was separated from his tomb, and a white marble monument (Current Mausoleum), designed by the Iranian architect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hooshang_Seyhoun\">Hooshang Seyhoun<\/a>, was erected over it. This mausoleum became one of the main symbols of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nishapur\">city<\/a>\u00a0and one of the known works of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iranian_architecture\">modern Persian architecture<\/a>. The influence of the architectural design of this mausoleum is visible on the coat of arms of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Neyshabur\">University of Neyshabur<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Neyshabur_University_of_Medical_Sciences&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences (NUMS)<\/a>\u00a0and other public, civil and private organizations of the city. The construction of the new mausoleum was completed in the year 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"426\" src=\"http:\/\/zahramansoori.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/R.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zahramansoori.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/R.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/zahramansoori.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/R-211x300.jpeg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mausoleum_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m\">Mausoleum of Omar Khayy\u00e1m &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Mausoleum of&nbsp;Omar Khayyam&nbsp;(Persian: \u0622\u0631\u0627\u0645\u06af\u0627\u0647 \u0639\u0645\u0631 \u062e\u06cc\u0627\u0645 ) is a&nbsp;modern&nbsp;mausoleum&nbsp;of white marble erected over&nbsp;Omar Khayyam&#8216;s headstone located on the south-east of the city of&nbsp;Nishapur,&nbsp;Iran. This mausoleum is a symbol of&nbsp;modern Persian architecture&nbsp;and is part of the&nbsp;national heritage&nbsp;of&nbsp;Iran. This monument was built during the reign of the&nbsp;Pahlavi dynasty&nbsp;and was designed by&nbsp;Hooshang Seyhoun. 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