Tomb of Saadi

Tomb of Saadi
	29°37′21.10″N 52°34′59.30″E / 29.6225278°N 52.5831389°E
Location	Shiraz, Iran
Designer	Mohsen Foroughi
Completion date	1952
Dedicated to	Saadi

The Tomb of Saadi, commonly known as Saadieh (Persian: سعدیه), is a tomb and mausoleum dedicated to the Persian poet Saadi in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Saadi was buried at the end of his life at a Khanqah at the current location. In the 13th century, a tomb was built for Saadi by Shams al-Din Juvayni, the vizir of Abaqa Khan. In the 17th century, this tomb was destroyed. During the reign of Karim Khan Zand, a mausoleum of two floors of brick and plaster, flanked by two rooms, was built.^[1] The current building was constructed between 1950 and 1952^[2] to a design by the architect Mohsen Foroughi and is inspired by the Chehel Sotoun with a fusion of old and new architectural elements. Around the tomb on the walls are seven verses of Saadi’s poems.

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