Vadi-e Rahmat

Vadi-e Rahmat (Benefaction Valley) is the main cemetery of Tabriz, Iran.

Vadi-e Rahmat in winter

Located in the southeastern part of the city, it is served by a road line which connects it to the southern highway of Tabriz. Many Iranian soldiers from Tabriz who died in the Iran–Iraq War are buried there.

Notable burials
    • Abolhassan Eqbali Azar (fa) (1863–1971) – singer
    • Kazem Saadati (fa) (1940–1971) – Marxist activist
    • Abdolali Karang (fa) (1923–1979) – writer
    • Jafar Khamenei (ru) (1887–1983) – political activist
    • Morteza Yaghchian (fa) (1956–1983) – member of IRGC
    • Salamullah Javid (1900–1986) – politician
    • Mahmoud Farnam (fa) (1871–1993) – musician
    • Ali Bakhshayesh (fa) (1916–1998) – singer
    • Abdollah Vaez (fa) (1926–2000) – scholar
    • Mohammad-Ali Erteghaei (fa) (d. 2002) – calligrapher
    • Ebrahim Bakht-Sholouhi (fa) (1941–2006) – calligrapher
    • Samad Sardarinia (fa) (1947–2008) – scholar
    • Jamal Torabi (fa) (1925–2009) – numismatist
    • Asghar Roufegar (fa) (1923–2010) – artist
    • Manouchehr Mortazavi (fa) (1929–2010) – scholar
    • Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi (1924–2011) – cleric
    • Saleh Hosseini (fa) (1945–2011) – poet
    • Aalaeddin Melmasi (cz) (1952–2011) – photographer
    • Bahman Sarkarati (fa) (1937–2013) – linguist
    • Mohammad Jarrahi (fa) (d. 2014) – union activist
    • Mohammad-Hossein Mobin (fa) (1927–2015) – writer
    • Shahrokh Zamani (1964–2015) – union activist
    • Imran Heidari (fa) (1956–2018) – singer


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