On arrival at Koom, she heard of his death, which caused her to delay her journey and take up her residence here for a time, but she shortly afterwards sickened, and died of a broken heart.

A mausoleum was originally built of a very humble nature, but, by order of Shah Abbas, it was enlarged and richly ornamented inside and out.

Fatti-Ali-Shah and Abbas the Second are both buried here; also the wife of Mahomet Shah, who died in 1873, having had the dome of the mosque covered with gold.

There is a legend among natives that Fatima's body no longer lies in the mosque, but was carried bodily to heaven shortly after death.
The population of Koom, which now amounts to little more than between ten and twelve thousand, was formerly much larger.

Like many other Persian cities--saving, perhaps, Teheran--it retains but little of its greatness, either as regards art or commerce.