Mahan, Iran

Mahan (Persian: ماهان, also Romanized as Māhān or Mâhân; also known as Māhūn)[3] is a city in, and the capital of, Mahan District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Iran.

Mahan Persian: ماهان
City
Shazdeh Garden, Mahan, by night
Mahan
Coordinates: 30°03′28″N 57°16′45″E[1]
Country	Iran
Province	Kerman
County	Kerman
District	Mahan
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	19,423
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)

At the 2006 census, its population was 16,787 in 4,138 households.[4] The following census in 2011 counted 17,178 people in 4,707 households.[5] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 19,423 people in 5,713 households.[2]

Mahan is well known for the tomb of the great Sufi leader Shah Ne'emat Ollah-e-Vali, as well as Shazdeh Garden (Prince Garden).

The tomb of Shah Nur-eddin Nematollah Vali, poet, sage, Sufi and founder of an order of darvishes, has twin minarets covered with turquoise tiles from the bottom up to the cupola. The mausoleum was built by Ahmad Shah Kani; the rest of the building was constructed during the reigns of Shah Abbas I, Mohammad Shah Qajar and Nasser-al-Din Shah. Shah Nematallah Wali spent many years wandering through central Asia perfecting his spiritual gifts before finally settling at Mahan, twenty miles south-east of Kerman, where he passed the last twenty five years of his life. He died in 1431, having founded a Darvish order which continues to be an active spiritual force today. The central domed burial vault at Mahan, completed in 1437 was erected by Ahmad Shah Bahmani, king of the Bahmani Sultanate, and one of Shah Nematallah's most devoted disciples.

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  Shazdeh Garden, Mahan. (by day).
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  Shah Nematollah Vali Sanctuary.