Tomb of Khwaju Kermani

🕰️When was it built?

The tomb was built in 1936 with funds from the Fars culture office. In 1958 the Fars archaeology office also built a room in the northern part of the grounds.

🏛️What was it built for?

The tomb of the poet Khwaju Kermani is here. The room built in 1958 is now the Khwaju Cultural Centre.

👀What you will see

• Khwaju's gravestone in the middle of an open-air enclosure; its top is raised, and Khwaju's name does not appear on it.
• Two short stone posts at the head and foot of the grave, in the manner of the graves of Sufis and poets of his time.
• Two ghazals by Khwaju in nastaliq script on the tiles over the front of the room.
• Three caves a little above the tomb; it is said Khwaju worshipped in one of them for a while.
• A relief of Rostam fighting a lion beside one of the caves, dated 1218 AH (1803).
• An unfinished relief of Fath Ali Shah Qajar and two of his sons.

💡Something interesting

In one of the caves above the tomb is the grave of Khajeh Emad al-Din Mahmud, the well-known vizier of Shah Sheikh Abu Eshaq Inju. The tomb of Khwaju is on the list of historic monuments as number 916, and it was restored and rebuilt after the congress held in Khwaju's honour in 1991.

🎒Good to know before you go