Mashhad Cross Country Train Terminal

This terminal is located in the north central part of Mashhad. The terminal building and railroad is owned by IRI Railways and has daily services from most parts of the country. The building was designed by Heydar Ghiai and it is considered one of the 20 most outstanding architectural buildings after World War II and is the most beautiful train stations of Iran.

House of Malek

Location: on the eastern side of Imam Khomeini St.

Date: Qajar era

Brief Description: Hajj Hossain Aqa Malek was born in 1867 in Tehran. He moved to Mashhad when he was young to manage his father’s many lands. He passed away in 1972 in Tehran, but was buried in Mashhad in one of the cemetery of the Haram.

The two-level house was used as his residents while he resided in Mashhad and covered an area of 600 m2 on a land of 1659 m2. Nowadays, only the front part of this beautiful house is left, which houses the Tourism House. It is also a museum showcasing the fine traditional art.

Great Khorasan Razavi Museum

Location: Kooh Sangi Park

Date Inauguration: 1382 AP/2004 CE

Brief Description: Through support of the Municipality of Mashhad, this museum was built to preserve the local identity, culture, history, and religious heritage of Mashhad. This museum covers 4,900 m2. The overall architecture of the museum was inspired by the designs of the ancient buildings of Harouniyeh al-Rashid and the Sun Palace.

Darougheh Historical House

Location: Darougheh Alley off of Navab Safavi St.

Date built: Qajar era

Brief Description: Darougheh (meaning: police chief) House was ordered to be built by the local police chief, Yousef Khan Harati. Russian architects undertook the project and today it is a registered national heritage site.

Imam Reza (PBUH) Hospital

Date built: 1928 the project was started and opening in 1934.

Brief Description: Karim Taherzadeh Behzad was a pioneer of Iranian contemporary architecture. How he gained this status is interesting. He was forced into exile by the Qajar regime due to political activities in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, and while in exile in Istanbul and Germany he studied architecture. When he was able to return to Iran, his first project was to design the monument/tomb of Ferdowsi in the ancient city of Toos, a suburb of Mashhad. Afterward, he designed the Hospital. It was built on 5.28 acres near the center of Mashhad on present day Imam Reza (PBUH) Square. Over 1000 construction workers, who were locals, worked daily to complete the project in six years. Also, all the building supplies were from Iran. The style is based on contemporary in addition to Islamic and the ancient Iranian architecture of Achaemenid, Safavid, and Seljuks. The Hospital is still in function today.

Khorasan Poets Mausoleum

Location: Toos, on the northeastern side of Pardis Blvd., overlooking Ferdowsi’s mausoleum

Brief Description: This is a cemetery of contemporary poets of Khorasan provinces. It was designed in 1378 and has a symbolic cylinder structure with Ferdowsi’s poems carved on it. The masters Zabehullah Sahebkar, Golchin Ma’ani, Ahmad Kamalpoor, Emad Khorasani and Esrat Ghahreman are buried there.

Mashhad Nader Shah Garden, Mausoleum, and Museum

Location: on the intersection of Shirazi St. and Azadi St. on the left hand side, this intersection is also known as Chahar Rah Shahadah

For a nominal entrance fee you can visit Nader Shah's mausoleum and museum, which is located in a beautiful garden about 1.6 km west of the Holy Shrine on Chahar Rah Shahadah. It does not take more than an hour to tour the entire complex.

The museum of Nader Shah is distinctly marked with a large statue of him on a horse with three soldiers in pursuit; one is a horn blower, the next is a flag bearer, and the third is an arms bearer. The entire statue is 14600 kg and was designed by the master sculptor Abol Hassan Sadeeghi and under his supervision the statute was made and bronzed in Italy.

Since Nader Shah was not a scientist or artist, but a warrior, the artifacts in the museum are weapons, armor and other items related to war and some paintings of the Shah.

There is a library with 17000 volumes of books, but there is a bookstore and souvenir shop where tourists can pick up postcards and small books.