Sentence examples for domed tomb from inspiring English sources

Over his grave the caliph built a domed tomb similar in architecture to those customarily built over the remains of the more venerated holy men.

At the mosque's entrance is the domed tomb of Aḥmad Shah (1441), and on the road leading to it is the Tin Darwaza (c. 1425), a triumphal triple-arch gateway through which the sultan was borne to worship.

We visited the bleak domed tomb of Ahmad Shah Masood, on the crest of the valley, then had an oddly English picnic in the drizzle, with rugs and cucumber sandwiches and plastic cups of chardonnay.

Next we turn north, floating past the fragrant botanical garden of Lord Kitchener's Island and the domed tomb of the Aga Khan, high on a sandbank to our left.

Further away from the Sadhana enclave on its opposite side, in Shiekh Serai, three tombs are noted of which only one is well preserved, the squared domed tomb of Sheikh Alauddin (1541 42).

East of the town are the domed tombs of eight Bahmanī kings, while to the west lies the royal necropolis of the Barīd sultans.

His gold-domed tomb in Tehrān's Behesht-e Zahrāʾ cemetery became a shrine for his supporters.

His gold-domed tomb in Tehrān's Behesht-e Zahrāʾ cemetery has since become a shrine for his supporters.

Traditionally they circle Imam Ali's gold-domed tomb inside, but with the shrine closed they contented themselves with laying the coffins on the sidewalk near one doorway.

There is an on-site synagogue in a trailer, a sweet aroma of freshly harvested cannabis that infuses the atmosphere and, halfway up a wooded hillside overlooking the farm, a blue-domed tomb of a rabbinic sage and his wife.

For more than a millennium, the deceased have arrived at its cemetery, the Valley of Peace, seeking blessings in their burial near the golden-domed tomb of Imam Ali, the revered Shiite saint.