DANIEL'S MAUSOLEUM (ARAMGAH-E DANYAL)

At the entrance, in the closed courtyard, a large, naive mural painting invites women to wear the chador. Moreover, the walls of the city abound in naive chromotest paintings, which are martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war.

Iran, with a total of about 25 000 Jews, houses in Suse the alleged tomb of Daniel, prophet also in Islam, thrown into the pit by the Persian king. This curious monument, located within walking distance of the entrance of the old town, is a special architecture. The pointed white dome is in the form of sugar bread. Its decoration in alveoli apiary is characteristic of the Khuzestan. The tomb lies inside a mausoleum formed by a closed square courtyard. The facade of the tomb itself, as a iwan flanked by two short minarets, is decorated with blue tiles. Like many Iranian tombs, it is richly decorated inside a mosaic of small éclats of mirrors. Exiled in Babylon between 587 and 538 BC, Daniel would have succeeded in convincing Nebuchadnezzar II of Yahweh'existence. " And Darius the Mede received royalty at the age of 62. Darius decided to establish on the kingdom the satraps 120 satraps so that there were all in the kingdom; and above them, three ministers, one of whom was Daniel, to make them accountable and the king is not frustrated. But this Daniel wins on the ministers and satraps them, because he had an extraordinary mind in him, and the king unleashed to establish it throughout the kingdom. So the ministers and the satraps wanted to find a grievance against Daniel. […] The king ordered to take Daniel, and we threw him into the pit to the lions. […] Then the king went to his palace. He spent the night fasting, did not introduce a concubines to him, and his sleep fled him. The king rose in early morning, from dawn, and he went to the brink of the lions in haste. As he approached the grave, he shouted towards Daniel with a bereaved voice. So Daniel spoke to the King:

" O King! Screw forever. My God sent his Angel. he closed the mouths of the lions and they did not hurt me. So the king was happy and he commanded to put Daniel out of the pit, and we found on him no injury, because he believed in his God. The Old Testament, Daniel, VI