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MOSQUE OF SULTAN KHODABUND. 
bund, the first sovereign of Persia who publicly declared himself 
of the sect of Ali. He built it, as a sacred shrine for the remains 
of that Caliph, and his no less holy martyr Hossien ; intending, 
when it was finished, to translate the bodies, with all religious 
pomp, from Meshed Ali, and Kerbela, to their new tomb. But 
the pious Sultan did not live to complete his object; and instead 
of the venerated relics, his own ashes occupied the place, which 
he had hoped, when tenanted according to his intentions, would 
cause Sultania to be a point of future pilgrimage, as revered by 
the faithful of his own empire, as Medina had heretofore been to 
Mussulmans in general. 
