When Ferdousi died, his body wasn’t buried in the burial ground of the city since he was a Shiite, so he was buried in his garden somewhere near Toos. His grand position in society attracted many intellectuals to the place. Several times a monument was built over his grave which each time it was destroyed until in Qajar time, Naser Al-Din Shah that heard the situation of the poet’s tomb ordered the construction of a new place over the ruins of the previous one. Years later, after World War I, when a sense of nationalism took over the country, Ferdousi became more important than ever. When it was understood that from the Qajar construct just a series of walls and a platform remains, a collaboration was formed to gather enough money to rebuild the mausoleum. With the donations of people, a pyramid-shaped tomb was designed that later got rejected for being foreign and was replaced with a design inspired by Pasargadae, Cyrus the Great’s tomb.
