Object description

Khalid Nabi Cemetery is a cemetery in northeastern Iran's Golestan province near the border with Turkmenistan, roughly 60 kilometres northeast of Gonbad-e Kavous city, in the Gokcheh Dagh hills of Turkmen Sahra. It is mainly situated on a mountain ridge about 1 km distance from the mausoleum called “Khaled Nabi” who according to oral tradition of the Yomut Turkomans was a pre-Islamic prophet and whose mausoleum is visited by them for pilgrimage together with the neighbouring one of Ata Chofun , his son-in-law.