Khalid Nabi Cemetery

Type of attraction: Historical, Cultural
Duration of the visit : Half a day
Suitable date: April, May, June, October, November, December
Province: Golestan

 Khalid Nabi Cemetery (Persian: گورستان خالد نبی‎, "Cemetery of the Prophet Khaled") is a cemetery in northeastern Iran's Golestan province near the border with Turkmenistan, roughly 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Gonbad-e Kavous city, in the Gokcheh Dagh hills of Turkmen Sahra. It is mainly situated on a mountain ridge about 1 km distance from the mausoleum called “Khaled Nabi” who according to oral tradition of the Yomut Turkomans was a pre-Islamic prophet and whose mausoleum is visited by them for pilgrimage together with the neighbouring one of Ata Chofun ("Father Shepherd"), his son-in-law.


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