Imamzadeh Abdollah, Ray

The Imamzadeh Abdollah () is a Shi'ite imamzadeh complex located in the Ray district of southern Tehran province, Iran. The complex includes a cemetery and contains the graves of many notable individuals.

The complex was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 4 May 1999, administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran.

Notable burials

• Hossein-Qoli Khān Māfi Nezām os-Saltaneh (1832–1908) – Prime Minister of Iran (1906–07)
• Āghā Bābā Khāzeni (1850–1920)
• Rezāqoli Khān Nezām os-Saltaneh <small>()</small> (1867–1924) – politician
• Adib Pishāvari (1844–1930) – Pakistani scholar and poet
• Javād Khān Saad od-Dowleh (1856–1930) – politician
• Esmāil Khān Qashqāi Sowlat od-Dowleh <small>()</small> (1880–1932) – politician
• Mohammad Nejāt <small>()</small> (1877–1933) – member of parliament
• Abdolhossein Teymourtāsh (1881–1933) – politician
• Rezāqoli Bāstāni <small>()</small> (d. 1934) – member of parliament
• Emād ol-Kottāb (1868–1936) – calligrapher
• Sheikh Khazal (1863–1936) – politician
• Mohammad-Hossein Borāzjāni <small>()</small> (1870–1940) – political activist
• Taqi Arāni (1903–1940) – Marxist activist
• Prince Mohammad-Hāshem Mirzā Sheikh ol-Raees <small>()</small> (1880–1940) – Qajar prince and poet
• Ali Naqdi Sardār Raf'at <small>()</small> (d. 1941) – army general
• Ebrat Nāeini <small>()</small> (1865–1942) – poet
• Vahid Dasgardi (1879–1942) – poet
• Abdollāh Hāmedi <small>()</small> (1902–1943) – scholar
• Mostafā Nuriāni <small>()</small> (1909–1943) – musician
• Taghi Shāyegan <small>()</small> (d. 1943) – musician
• Khalil Saqafi A'lam od-Dowleh <small>()</small> (1862–1944) – physician and diplomat
• Soleimān Eskandari (1877–1944) – politician
• Rezāqoli Zelli <small>()</small> (1906–1946) – singer
• Habibollah Zolfonoun <small>()</small> (1860–1947) – scholar
• Sohrāb Dibā <small>()</small> (1899–1947) – army officer and father of Empress Farah Pahlavi
• Tājmāh Āfāgh <small>()</small> (d. 1947) – writer
• Asadollāh Zolfaqāri <small>()</small> (d. 1947) – politician
• Abdolhossein Shahnāzi <small>()</small> (d. 1948) – musician
• Mehdi Shariat-Razavi <small>()</small> (1932–1953) – political activist
• Ahmad Qandchi <small>()</small> (1934–1953) – political activist
• Mostafa Bozorgniā <small>()</small> (1934–1953) – political activist
• Ezzatollāh Siāmak (d. 1954) – a founder of Tudeh Military Network
• Masoumeh Khākyār <small>()</small> (1932–1954) – actress
• Toghrol Afshār <small>()</small> (1933–1956) – journalist
• Mahmoud Vahid-Saad Vahid od-Dowleh <small>()</small> (1883–1957) – member of parliament
• Bāqer Rāmeshgar <small>()</small> (1873–1959) – musician
• Abdullah Khan Ahmadieh (1886–1959) – scholar
• Abolfazl Lesāni <small>()</small> (1897–1959) – journalist
• Nimā Yooshij (1897–1960) – poet (in 1993, his body reburied in his house in Yush, Mazandaran)
• Sādegh Sarmad <small>()</small> (1907–1960) – politician
• Asghar Tafakkori <small>()</small> (1911–1960) – actor
• Ali Nasr (1895–1961) – dramatist
• Ahmad-Hossein Adl (1889–1963) – politician
• Fazlollāh Zāhedi (1892–1963) – Prime Minister of Iran (1953–55)
• Reza Afshar (1887–1964) - statesman and aviation pioneer
• Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi (1884–1965) – army general
• Doust-Ali Moayyeri <small>()</small> (1874–1966) – artist
• Hossein Qollar-Āqāsi (1890–1966) – painter
• Iskandar Mirza (1899–1969) – 1st President of Pakistan
• Ahmad Akhgar <small>()</small> (1888–1970) – politician
• Mahmoud Khosrowpanāh Ezām os-Soltān <small>()</small> (1886–1972) – army general
• Mehdi Bāmdād <small>()</small> (1897–1973) – historian and biographer
• Nāder Ārāsteh <small>()</small> (1893–1974) – diplomat
• Jalal Afshar (1894–1974) – scholar
• Abbās Massoudi (1895–1974) – journalist and politician
• Mohammad Mehrān <small>()</small> (1898–1974) – mayor of Tehran
• Azizollāh Zarghāmi (1884–1978) – army general
• Habibiollāh Morād <small>()</small> (1906–1978) – actor
• Abdolali Badrei (1919–1979) – army general
• Gholāmhossein Zahireddini <small>()</small> (1911–1981) – musician
• Ali Dashti (1897–1982) – politician
• Mahmoud Karimi <small>()</small> (1927–1984) – musician
• Reza Rasouli (1892–1984) – politician and public figure, Minister of Trade and Economy in the Azerbaijan People's Government.
• Ali-Akbar Shahnāzi (1897–1985) – musician
• Badr-ol-Moluk Bāmdād <small>()</small> (1898–1987) – journalist and activist
• Rezā Sarrāfzādeh <small>()</small> (1899–1987) – politician
• Mohsen Moghaddam <small>()</small> (1900–1987) – scholar
• Mahmoud Zolfaqāri <small>()</small> (1902–1987) – member of parliament
• Mehdi Barkashli <small>()</small> (1912–1988) – musician
• Mohammad-Ali Safariān <small>()</small> (1929–1988) – translator
• Kāzem Hassibi (1906–1990) – politician
• Mohammad-Taghi Qomi <small>()</small> (1910–1990) – cleric
• Hassan Mirkhāni <small>()</small> (1912–1990) – calligrapher
• Majid Mohseni <small>()</small> (1923–1990) – actor
• Ali Hajibeigi (1870–1950) – Azerbaijani merchant
• Hajj Mohammad Khazeni-Arrangei (1874 – 1948) Qajar-era regional official
• Hushang Tāheri <small>()</small> (1934–1991) – writer
• Hossein Amirfazli <small>()</small> (1920–1992) – actor
• Abbās Mehrpooyā <small>()</small> (1927–1992) – singer
• Alirezā Afzalipour (1909–1993) – philanthropist
• Abolhassan Varzi <small>()</small> (1914–1994) – poet
• Abolhassan Ebtehāj (1899–1999) – economist
• Yadollāh Sahābi (1906–2002) – politician
• Fākhereh Sabā (1920–2007) – singer
• Jafar Shahidi (1919–2008) – scholar
• Tourān Mirhādi (1927–2016) – scholar
• Pourān Shariat-Razavi <small>()</small> (1934–2019) – scholar
• Ali Mirzāei (1929–2020) – weightlifter
• Baktāsh Ābtin (1974–2022) – writer

See also

• List of imamzadehs in Iran
• Shia Islam in Iran

References

Literature

External links