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Home » Attractions » Golestan Province » Khalid Nabi Cemetery

Khalid Nabi Cemetery

  • Ancient Cemetery with weird grave-stones
  • Address : near Gachi Sou Village, Gonbad-Maraveh Tappeh Road
  • Opening Hours : 24h
  • Entrance Fee : Free
  • Historical Period(s) : Prehistoric Iran
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  • Recommended Time to Spend : 1-2 hours
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  • Golestan Province
  • Gonbad Kavus

In the west of Alam Baba, Khalid Nabi Cemetery can be found on the hill ridges. The tombs of this cemetery are made of standing stones which are two meters high or even more. Although today the number of these tombs reduces, over six hundred standing stones were spread out in several locations in the past. If the tomb belongs to a man, it is in the form of a cylinder or a cross, if the tomb belongs to a woman, it is constructed with one or two bumps. There are humanlike forms or tombs in the form of the head of a ram. It is said that this cemetery dates backs to the Palaeolithic era.

Khalid Nabi Cemetery is located ninety kilometers northeast of Gonbad-e Kavous in Golestan province. Khalid Nabi Cemetery can be found at six kilometers of Gachi Sou village and on the Googajeh Dagh Mountain (700 meters above the sea level) inside Panj Shir valley. According to the Yomut Turkomans, Khaled Nabi was a pre-Islamic prophet.

Khalid Nabi Chapel is made of a rectangular structure with a dome, two metal columns, some windows, and an arch iron doorway. In this chapel, there is a one and a half-meter tomb, on which there is a white blanket (it is framed with small pieces of colored textiles).

Next to this cemetery, there exists a mosque, a few rooms, a cistern, which is called Lari with native people, and some other buildings. Every spring, Khezr Dandan flows near this land.

Choopan Ata, also called Ata Chofun (“Father Shepherd”), is another chapel which is situated a little bit further. It is a rectangular construction, with a conical metal dome, and three arched windows installed in four walls. There is another construction in the shape of a doorway that is a way to a tomb inside this building. The walls are covered by cement from outside.

There is another similar chapel near Choopan Ata and its name is Alam Baba. A sacred tree can be found in front of Alam Baba. Both constructions are made of Looneh, a local stone.

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