[1][2][3][4] Nader Shah was born into an ordinary family from the Qirqlu branch of the Afshars, a Turkic tribe living in Khorasan.

After Nader Shah's successful campaign against the Mughal Empire, he returned with immense wealth: the peacock throne, the Koh-i-Noor and Daria-i-Noor diamonds, and “700 elephants, 4,000 camels and 12,000 horses carrying wagons all laden with gold, silver and precious stones”.

In this period, another example of architecture built in the Mughal style by Nader Shah in the city of Mashhad was called Kakh-e Khorshid meaning the Sun Palace.

This mausoleum was converted into a residential palace by various tribal leaders and Nader Shah’s body remained un-commemorated until the 1960s when a concrete monument was constructed for him in the vicinity of a heavily polluted traffic intersection in Mashhad.

[6] Despite its incomplete exterior, the interior of the Khorshid is fully refined: each doorway is decorated by miniature paintings and Mughal frescoes.