Behesht-e Zahra
Behesht-e Zahra (Persian: بهشت زهرا,The Paradise of Zahara), is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part of metropolitan Tehran, it is connected to the city by a metro line. The cemetery has been one of the inspirations for the popular webcomic, Zahra's Paradise.
History
In the early 1950, all the cemeteries in Tehran were replaced by several large new ones outside the precincts of the capital. Behesht-e Zahran was built in 1951 near the City of Qom and Opened in 1952. The first person that buried in Behesht-e Zahra was Mohammad-Taghi Khial.
Many of the deceased soldiers of the Iran–Iraq War are buried there. A number of Iranian officials, including Ruhollah Khomeini (Leader of Iranian Revolution), Mohammad-Ali Rajai (Former President of Iran), Mohammad Javad Bahonar (Former Prime Minister) are also buried there.
Notable interments
Among its more famous residents are:
- Mohammad Sa'ed (1883–1973), politician
- Keramat Daneshian (1944-1974), poet
- Bijan Jazani (1938–1975), political leader
- Mohsen Hashtroodi (1908–1976), mathematician
- Amir-Abbas Hoveida (1919–1979), politician
- Nematollah Nassiri (1911–1979), general
- Javad Fakori (1938–1981), general and politician
- Mostafa Chamran (1932-1981), general and politician
- Mohammad Beheshti (1928–1981), cleric and politician
- Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933–1981), politician
- Mohammad-Ali Rajai (1933–1981), politician
- Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat (1955–1984), military commander
- Dariush Forouhar (1928–1988), politician
- Parvaneh Forouhar (1938–1988), politician
- Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989), politician
- Ali Hatami (1944–1996), film director
- Ebrahim Zalzadeh (1948–1997), politician
- Asadollah Lajevardi (1935-1998), politician
- Ali Sayad Shirazi (1944–1999), army chief
- Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob (1923–1999), scholar
- Mohammad Ali Fardin (1930–2000), actor and wrestler
- Jamileh Sheykhi (1930–2001), actress
- Rahman Dadman (1956–2001), politician
- Jamal Karimi-Rad (1956–2006), politician
- Khosrow Shakibai (1944–2008), actor
- Haj Ghorban Soleimani (1920–2008), dotar player and vocalist
- Ahmad Bourghani (1959–2008), member of parliament
- Shusha Guppy (1935–2008), writer, editor and singer
- Abbas Katouzian (1923–2008), painter and artist
- Khadijeh Saqafi (1913–2009), Khomeini's wife
- Neda Agha-Soltan (1983–2009), protester
- Niku Kheradmand (1932–2009)2010), actress
- Mohammad Nouri (1929–2010), singer
- Shokouh Mirfattah (Fatemeh HajMirfattah) (1946–2010), Sports medicine scholar
- Hamideh Kheirabadi (1924–2010), actress
- Iraj Afshar (1925–2011), bibliographer and historian
- Nasser Hejazi (1949–2011), football player
See also