page_title: Reza Shah's mausoleum
section_title: Under Mohammad Reza Shah
hierarchical_section_title: Reza Shah's mausoleum / History / Under Mohammad Reza Shah
caption_attribution_description: Reza Shah's mausoleum
context_page_description: Reza Shah's Mausoleum, located in Ray south of Tehran, was the burial ground of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the penultimate Shahanshah of Iran. It was built close to Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine.
  In addition to Reza Shah, his son, Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi I, is also buried here. The prince who was Mohammad Reza Shah's only full brother, was a pilot and crashed in the Alborz Mountains on October 17, 1954. When the Mausoleum was destroyed, no one found the prince's body.
  In the early days of the Iranian Revolution in April 1980, Reza Shah's Mausoleum was destroyed under the direction of Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali by Revolutionary Guards; In his memoirs, Khalkhali describes how difficult it was to destroy the building due to its solid structure. Revolutionaries were unable to find Reza Shah's dead body and suggested that Mohammad Reza Shah had taken it with him while leaving Iran, a claim which was denied by Her Imperial Majesty Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi in an interview. On April 23, 2018, a mummified body, possibly that of Reza Shah, was found during expansion work at Shah Abdolazim Shrine at the site of the former mausoleum.
context_section_description: Other people who buried in the mausoleum after 1951 were the assassinated Prime Minister Haj Ali Razmara, Reza Shah's valet Soleyman Behboudi, Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, who died in a plane crash in 1954, General Fazlollah Zahedi, a former Prime Minister of Iran, and assassinated Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansour.
  The mausoleum was also a place of visitation for foreign heads of state who came to Iran. Among the foreign dignitaries who visited the mausoleum were Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, in 1961, and by Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, also in the 1960s. During the visit of US President Richard Nixon in 1972 in the mausoleum, a bomb was planted by the terrorist organisation People's Mujaheden, which exploded an hour after the visit of President.
  The mausoleum was the scene of several celebrations: the most spectacular being the golden jubilee of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1976, 50 years after the coronation of Reza Shah. Another celebration was held, while the troubles that will lead to the Iranian revolution were already beginning, on March 15, 1978, for the centenary of Reza Shah, at the same mausoleum.
caption: Imperial Family at the mausoleum, 1971
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