Mausoleum of Mirza Kuchak Khan Jangali

Mausoleum of Mirza Kuchak Khan Jangali

The mausoleum of Yunes Ostādsarāi known as Mirza Kuchak Khan Jangali or commander Jangal (1257-1300 solar Egira) is located in the city of Rasht (Gilān region) and is related to the Pahlavi period, to the year 1390 (solar Hegira) while the extension and the construction of the building in his memory and the portal of this complex was built after the Islamic revolution.

Mirzā Kuchak Khān Jangali was a fighter of the constitutional revolution and leader of the Jangal movement who fought against the violation of borders and the independence of Iran from foreigners.

The building in his memory, between the mausoleum and the cemetery Soleimān Dārāb, beautiful in its simplicity was built taking into account the canons of traditional architecture and in the form of a regular octagon, one of the usual architectural geometric forms of Iran, with eight beautiful columns and wooden capitals all around the mausoleum.

The elements that make up this building are mostly bricks, tiles, clay and wood and all are considered local materials whose combination with the green environment and the ancient trees around, recall the forest and adapt to the liberal spirit of that fighter character .

Around the mausoleum of this great man, the historical protagonist of the struggles of Gilān and Iran, the bodies of the militants of the Jangal movement are buried, whose names are engraved on their respective sepulchres. Next to the tomb of Mirzā there is also the mausoleum of a famous and popular poet of this region, Shivan Fumani and other celebrities of this area.

This place and in its vicinity the Kolāh Farhangi palace, the Mirzā Kuchak Khān house museum and the Ganjineh museum are among the tourist attractions of Rasht. It is interesting to know that the burial of the head of Mirzā Kuchak Khān - which was separated from the body and was in Tehrān - was buried next to her statue in the village Khānqāh Gilvān (border between the Gilān and Ardabil region), with 44 years of distance ! The head and the statue were then moved to the present tomb site.

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