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The Astan Quds Razavi is a major player in the economy of the city of Mashhad. [3] The organization by order of Ruhollah Khomeini was tax exempt for 35 years until 2019. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Today Astan Quds Razavi holds vast assets, including land, businesses, and industries, contributing significantly to Khamenei family 's influence.
The Imam Reza shrine (Persian: حرم امام رضا, romanized: Haram-e Emâm Rezâ, lit. 'Sanctuary of Imam Reza'), located in Mashhad, Iran, is an Islamic shrine containing the remains of Ali al-Rida, the eighth Imam of Shia Islam. It is the largest mosque in the world by area.
Gonabad University of Medical Sciences; Imam Reza University; Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Mashhad Branch (Jahad Daneshgahi of Mashhad) Islamic Azad University, Gonabad Branch; Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch; Islamic Azad University, Neishabur Branch; Islamic Azad University, Quchan Branch
Shah Reza Hospital (currently Imam Reza Hospital, affiliated with the Basij organization) was founded in 1934; the sugar factory of Abkuh in 1935; and the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in 1939. The city's first power station was installed in 1936, and in 1939, the first urban transport service began with two buses.
The shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, the only tomb of Shia imams in Iran, was the most important religious shrine and the Safavids' focus. The Safavid kings tried to expand it in various ways, including allocating government budgets and endowments and giving ornaments and charity.
Following the inauguration of a museum in the Golestan Palace in Tehran after Nassereddin Shah Qajar's return from his second European tour, displaying a collection of exquisite objects in a building in the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad became a major concern for the custodians and the vice custodians of the shrine during the late Qajar period; in so far as this issue was even ...
4 Mashhad. 5 Karaj. 6 Dezful. 7 Shiraz. ... Imam Reza Educational Complex (High School & Middle school) ... Shahid Bahonar Pre-university Center;
The first, and the greatest surviving, Persian monument of the fifteenth century is the beautiful mosque of Gawhar Shad (1418) now abutting the shrine of the Imam Reza in Mashhad. Its portal continues the Samarkand style of arch within arch, enriched by a succession of bevels and reveals that give it depth and power.