Domestic tourists flock to the Ferdosi Mausoleum , set in its own park and topped by a classically styled stone cenotaph. The current mausoleum only dates from 1964 but there’s been a tomb of sorts here since Ferdosi’s death in AD 1020. He was originally interred in his own garden because the local Muslim cemetery considered his writings too anti-Islamic for burial there. Similar extreme feelings resurfaced very briefly during the earliest throes of the 1979 revolution during which the mausoleum was damaged.
