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Toghrol tower is one of Rayy's few surviving architectural landmarks. Built in 1140 to commemorate the moving of the Seljuk Turk capital to Rayy, and used as a burial venue for the Seljuk leader Toghrol Beik, the 800 year old, 22 meter high tower survived the Mongol sacking of Rayy to become a national monument in 1931. Considering that the city of Rey in its heyday housed approximately 80 similar structures, one was bound to survive. The tower itself is essentially a stone tube erupting from the ground, and is itself unremarkable except for that fact that "According to experts, the tower was designed like the hands of a clock and one can tell the time from the sunlight on its arches." (http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2673/html/art.htm)