Abarkavan, Jesem or Qeshm, with its azure sky and white clouds, rocky beach and red sunset, was a strategic place that made blood flow to the livers of many people from the other side, let alone from this side. It is from the Portuguese who saw the eyes of the Iranians far away at that time and came and built their own Portuguese castle on Qeshm Island. Those Englishmen who attacked Reza Shah's entire navy during World War leveled with water. It was from the Dutch who had one eye on India and the other on the Persian Gulf.
What are the beauties of the shrine of Bibi Maryam? Is there a similarity between this shrine and Bibi Maryam Qalhat in Oman? This time Ozhan agency Tourism Magazine specifically focuses on one of Qeshm's sights.
Where is Bibi Maryam's tomb?
Iran, Hormozgan Province, Qeshm Island, Tem Suniti Village.
How to go to the tomb of Bibi Maryam?
How is Bibi Maryam's tomb located?
This Bibi Maryam is not that Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari
There is another Bibi Maryam in the mountains of Oman, which is the same as the tomb of Bibi Maryam Qeshm. Its architecture does not have the least of our own Sunni theme tombs. Even their appearance and interior do not match each other more or less, but where is this and where is that. Many people think that Sardar Maryam Bakhtiari or Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari is buried here, and they put her name on this tomb.
She was the leader of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari women who brought the Russians and the British to their knees under the flash of his sword and the shooting of his gun, and he made their faces fall and made them flee in the First World War. This writer and women's rights activist was one of the fighters of the constitutional period, who rested after fighting in Takht Folad of Isfahan. Although I don't know what the connection between Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari and this Bibi Maryam might be, but people believe that this tomb was the burial place of a grandee or a loved one whose name has not been revealed yet.
Coral history of Bibi Maryam's tomb
The tomb, which is said to be one of the pure Seljuk architectures, which destroyed all the Spaniards with its coral dome and shell limestone inside. I said it was ruined, the ruin of its dome, which is due to the hardships of the times, with the external octagonal foundations of the mausoleum that look like quadrangles from the inside, how much it reminds me of observatories that observe the night sky from this side and that side. It is also of its ancient and coral type.
Even though the Spaniards named the village and its cemetery the name Sunnite Tem (Holy Tomb), but the rough lines of Persian and Arabic languages in the form of Naskh, Thulth, and Kufi are engraved on the stones of the cemetery, which are said to be from the same periods after Islam. On the other hand, if you turn your head around the tomb of Bibi Maryam, you will find pieces of pottery that date back to the Qajar and Safavid dynasties or even the Ilkhani period.
The tooth-picking thing that didn't catch my hand from the obscure history of Bibi Maryam's tomb, but it remains from the researchers who say that this tomb is one of the tombs of Mehri or Mehr worship before Islam. Some say not before Islam, the period of its construction is after Islam and goes back to the period of Ilkhans or Seljuks.
That is, it keeps taking us back and forth to the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th lunar centuries. Many people say that it dates back to the Timurid to Safavid period, and they estimate the history of the carved graves around the shrine of Bibi Maryam from the 9th to the 11th century, and now God knows whose words I should believe.
Although the work is overdue and part of the dome of the tomb has been destroyed, there were those who registered it in the national monuments of Iran on 27 December 1377. There is another tomb of Bibi Maryam located in Oman. As a result, Omanis handle it better than us. At least it has less damage than Bibi Maryam's tomb in Qeshm.
A visit to Bibi Maryam's tomb
If the houses in the north with their red roofs or the stone houses of Kurdistan with their floors or the adobe houses in Yazd do not excite us, the coral dome of Bibi Maryam's tomb in Qeshm will certainly excite us. In the sightseeing places of Qeshm, where you can find stones and pebbles as much as you want, building a tomb with stones, rubble, pebbles, plaster and ashes was useless for those times. The outside of the dome was made of coral stones and the inside of the dome was made of layers of lime to make it feel like a part of nature.
Although the outside of the shrine of Bibi Maryam is simply surrounded and there are no inscriptions or writings inside, the empty spaces of the miniature tiles on its inner walls say something else. Of course, these tiles are not very honest with us about where they came from in history and what their story was and what they have achieved in these several hundred years.
The door of Bibi Maryam's tomb remains the same as the small wooden door of the village houses, and when you enter it, you must walk with yourself and lock your body dimensions with the door frame so that you don't fall into the dirt or hit the door or wall.
Where is Bibi Maryam's tomb?
address: Iran, Hormozgan province, Qeshm island, near Torian village, Tem Santi village, Bibi Maryam tomb or Tem Suniti tomb.
Access to the tomb
You know where Qeshm Island is! After arriving in this biggest island of Iran, take Qeshm Island buses and taxis to the nearby Torian village, then go to Tem Suniti village.
Tomb of Bibi Maryam; The wonder of sea coral
It remains for us to find an ancient city or civilization from the miles and depths under the Persian Gulf that will enchant everyone. Of course, they did this a long time ago and it was the islands of the Persian Gulf that caught the eyes of the Spaniards and they took the name of Qeshm village in their own language.
I don't know a place where the name of the village and its cemetery and tomb are the same, but Bibi Maryam's tomb is considered one of the most beautiful places to see in Qeshm, and if I could, I would wear its dome as a crown on my head, but I am content with wearing its Saroj plaster casts on my eyes.
