Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery

Zahir-od-dowleh Cemetery (in Persian ظهيرالدوله) is located in Darband, close to Tajrish, Shemiran (now a neighbourhood inside Tehran's city limits) and many Iranian giants of art and culture are buried there.

Notable burials

• Ali Zahir-od-dowleh (1864-1924) - Sufi leader
• Iraj Mirza (1874-1925) - poet
• Gholamhossein Darvish Khan (d. 1926) - musician
• Musa Hakimi (1864-1944) - constitutionalist
• Hassan-Ali Mostashar (1894-1945) - statesman
• Mohammad Masoud (1905-1947) - journalist
• Mohammad Taqi Bahar (1884-1951) - renowned poet and scholar
• Gholamreza Rashid Yasemi (1895-1951) - poet
• Reza Mahjoubi (1898-1954) - musician
• Hossein Taherzadeh (1882-1955) - singer
• Abolhasan Saba (1902-1957) - musician
• Qamar ol-Moluk Vaziri (1905-1959) - singer
• Esmail Marzban (1867-1960) - statesman
• Hossein Saba (1924-1960) - musician
• Nosratollah Montaser (1899-1965) - mayor of Teheran
• Morteza Mahjoubi (1899-1965) - musician
• Ruhollah Khaleqi (1906-1965) - musician
• Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1966) - poetess
• Hossein Masrour (1890-1968) - writer
• Hossein Yahaghi (1903-1968) - musician
• Mohammad-Hassan Rahi Moayyeri (1909-1968) - poet
• Hassan Taqizadeh (1876-1969) - statesman and veteran constitutionalist
• Jahanbakht Tofigh (1931-1970) - wrestler
• Hossein Tehrani (1912-1974) - musician
• Farid Khaz'al (1927-1975) - IIN general
• Nour-Ali Boroumand (1906-1977) - musician
• Fazael Tamaddon (1908-1977) - IIAF chief of staff (1975–77)
• Alireza Afzalipour (1909-1993) - philanthropist

Gallery

• Zahir-Iraj.jpg

  Iraj Mirza

• Zahir-Bahar.jpg

  Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (Malak o-Sh'sho'arā)

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  Forough Farrokhzad

• Zahir-Rahi.jpg

  Rahi Mo'ayyeri

• Zahir-Khaleghi.jpg

  Ruhollah Khaleqi

• Zahir-Vaziri.jpg

  Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri

External links

• Zahir od-Dowleh Cemetery Data Base, in Persian, [1].
• Photo gallery of graves in Zahir-od-Dowleh Cemetery, Zahir od-Dowleh Cemetery Data Base, [2].
• Photo gallery of the graves of the artists buried at Zahir-od-Dowleh Cemetery, Zahir od-Dowleh Cemetery Data Base, [3].
• Biography of Mirza Ali-Khan Qajar Do'lou, Zahir od-Dowleh (علیخان قاجار دولو ملقب به ظهیرالدوله), in Persian, Zahir od-Dowleh Cemetery Data Base, [4].
• A short biography of Mirza Ali-Khan Zahir od-Dowleh, The Group Weblog of the Archivists of Iran (وبلاگ گروهی آرشیویستهای ایران), in Persian, [5].
• A photograph of Mirza Ali-Khan Zahir od-Dowleh: [6].