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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 Fatima Masumeh Shrine is the mausoleum of Fatima bint Musa, located in Qom, Iran. Qom is considered a holy city in Shia Islam along with Najaf, Karbala, Mashhad, Kadhimiya, Samarra and Kufa. The city is the world's largest center for Shia Islamic scholarship. Fatima bint Musa was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the granddaughter of Ja'far al-Sadiq, the daughter of Musa al-Kazim, the sister of Ali al-Rida, and the aunt of Muhammad al-Jawad, the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth of the Twelve Imams.
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A place where devout Muslims gather to meet and hear speeches from the religious leaders.
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Considered the third largest Islamic library with over 500,000 handwritten texts.
The mosque is reserved for Muslims.
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One of the major pilgrim mosques in Iran. Notice that the mosque is off limits for non-Muslims.
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