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A place where devout Muslims gather to meet and hear speeches from the religious leaders.
The Qom Seminary is the largest and one of the foremost Shia hawzas, located in the city of Qom, Iran. It is the largest seminary in Iran, established in 1922 by Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi in Qom to train Usuli scholars. The Hawza is composed of several structured institutions and systems developed to govern itself. Its curriculum includes Arabic grammar, rhetoric, Quranic studies, theology, and traditional sciences. Along with Kufa and Baghdad, the Qom hadith school is among the three earliest centers of hadith transmission in Shia intellectual history.
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The Holy Shrine is the burial place of "Fatema È Massumeh". Also buried within the shrine are three daughters of ninth, Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, Muhammad at-Taqī. Women must wear a chador to enter. Foreigners need to be accompanied by a free guide.
The Great Ayat Allah Marashi Najafi
Considered the third largest Islamic library with over 500,000 handwritten texts.
The mosque is reserved for Muslims.
مسجد جمکران
One of the major pilgrim mosques in Iran. Notice that the mosque is off limits for non-Muslims.
University of Religions and Denominations