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Imamzadeh Yahya Ibn Zeid

This shrine is in Gonbad-e Kavus. His parentage by three ancestors reached to Imam Ali. After Ashura some riots started by the vengeance of Imam Hossein which one of the most famous riots was riot of Zeid Ibn Ali. Despite not being grown up son of Zeid had started a war against Omavids in revenge of his fatherhis grandfathergot killed in this path. His body in Jorjan (Gonbad-e Kavus) was hanged for years. In historical documents he was known as the first bringer of Sahifa Sajjadiya to Iran. The building of Imamzadeh is one of the blessed buildings in Golestan. The altar of this building is somehow the oldest partwas built in Ilkhanate dynasty which has decoration of plaster with flowergeometric patternsverses in Kufic.