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Interior of the mausoleum pre-1950 photograph of the old tomb The Avicenna Mausoleum in Hamadan , Iran , was built in 1952, on the site of the tomb of Avicenna (d. 1037). There had been an older building marking his tomb, destroyed in 1950 to make way for the project. The mausolem was the first state commission given to Hooshang Seyhoun . It is surmounted by a spindle-shaped tower, inspired by the Ziyarid -era tomb tower of Gonbad-e Kavus . Next to the mausoleum is a library, a small museum, and a monumental marble statue. The Pahlavi government had plans to build such a mausoleum since at least 1939. They were eventually realized to mark the millennium of Avicenna's birth (traditionally AH 370; AH 1370 corresponding to AD 1950/1). The mausoleum was dedicated in May 1954 in a grand ceremony, and the avenue running in front of it renamed in honour of Avicenna. As the monument was a central element of the Pahlavi's government's propagation of Iranian nationalism , and it was consequently in danger of being defaced. But as Khomeini himself was an admirer of Avicenna, Buali Sina Square was not renamed after the Revolution, and Buali Sina Street connects it to the central Imam Khomeini Square roundabout to the north.1
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The Mausoleum of Avicenna is a complex located at Avicenna Square, Hamadan , Iran .Dedicated to the Iranian polymath Avicenna , the complex includes a library, a small museum, and a spindle-shaped tower inspired by the Ziyarid -era Kavus Tower .
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The Mausoleum of Avicenna ( ) is a monumental complex located at Avicenna Square, Hamadan , Iran . Dedicated to the Persian polymath Avicenna , the complex includes a library, a small museum, and a spindle-shaped tower inspired by the Ziyarid -era Kavus Tower .
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Monument in Hamadan, Iran The Mausoleum of Avicenna ( Persian : آرامگاه بوعلیسینا , lit. ' Ibn Sina Mausoleum ' ; Arabic : ضريح ابن سين ), also known as the Tomb of Abu Ali Sina , is a mausoleum and history museum complex, located at Avicenna Square, in the city of Hamadan , in the province of Hamadan , Iran .Dedicated to the Persian polymath Avicenna , the complex includes a library, a small museum, and a spindle-shaped 28-metre-high (92 ft) tower inspired by the Ziyarid -era Kavus Tower .The mausoleum and museum complex was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 11 May 1997 and is administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran .At the core of the Pahlavi 'pride,' around which the imagined Iranian nation was exulted before the Revolution, the tomb complex came under the risk of state vandalism between 1978 and 1980.
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monumental complex located at avicenna square
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mausoleum and history museum complex
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