Sheikhan cemetery

{{short description|Cemetery in Qom, Iran}}

{{Infobox cemetery

| name = Sheikhan cemetery

| native_name = گورستان شیخان

| native_name_lang = fa

| image = Sheikhan.jpg

| image_size = 300px

| alt = View from inside Sheikhan cemetery – 2016

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| established = More than a thousand years ago

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| location = Qom, Qom Province

| country = Iran

| coordinates = {{coord|34|38|33.5|N|50|52|53.7|E|region:IR|display=inline,title}}

| type = Public, Muslim, Veterans, Historic, National

| style = Architectural, Artistic and Cultural style

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Sheikhan cemetery (means scholars cemetery) is the second historical cemetery in the Islamic world and one of the oldest cemeteries in Qom, Qom Province, Iran which is located near the Fatima Masumeh Shrine.

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|title=قبرستان شیخان قم کجاست؟ _ اعتمادآنلاین

|language=fa

|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|title=قبرستان شیخان؛ دومین قبرستان تاریخی جهان اسلام – کجارو

|language=fa

|access-date= 23 October 2020

}}

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|title=قبرستان شیخان قم کجاست؟_ آرامستانی که محل دفن دکتر قریب و بسیاری از علمای معروف اسلام است _ دیدبان ایران

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|title=سومین قبرستان قدیمی جهان اسلام در شیراز؛ با نیت مرمت در حال تخریب+تصاویر – رضوی

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The cemetery dates back over a thousand years.

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|title=قبرستان شیخان قم، با قدمت هزار و چندصدساله + عکس

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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This cemetery is currently the burial place of some Shiite scholars such as Zakaria ibn Idris Ash'ari Qomi,

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|title=زکریا بن ادریس – ویژه وب – صدا و سیمای قم

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|title=گنجینه های تشیّع_ زکریا بن آدم اشعری؛ امین الرضا، وکیل الجواد _ خبرگزاری بین المللی شفقنا

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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Zakaria ibn Adam Ash'ari Qomi,

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|title=گنجینه های تشیّع در مزار شیخان قم

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|title=زکریا بن آدم – ویژه وب – صدا و سیمای قم

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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|title=زکریا بن آدم – رشد

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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Mirza-ye Qomi,

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|access-date= 23 October 2020

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Mohammad Ali Modarres Khiabani

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and Mahmoud Ansari Qomi,

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as well as those killed during the Iranian Revolution (1979) and Iranian soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq war.

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The eight victims of the June 28, 1981 terrorist attack in Tehran, Iran, along with their families, as well as Dr. Mohammad Gharib (father of Pediatrics in Iran) are buried in this cemetery. Also, Mirza Jawad Maleki Tabrizi, the famous Faqīh and Mysticism

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as well as Fakhr al-Sadat Borghei, one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran,

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are buried in this cemetery.

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