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Hajar Khatoon Mosque

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Hajar Khatoon Mosque is architecturally a unique and ancient Muslim mosque (now a tourist destination) in the city of Sanandaj in the Iranian Kurdistan.

Hajar Khatoon Mosque was built more than hundred years ago by Haj Sheikh Shokrollah who was a very prominent Sunni cleric or Sheikh in that region.

Shrine

In 813 AD and after the death of Hajar Khatoon; daughter of Seventh Shia Imam and sister of eighth Shia Imam, A shrine was built to commemorate her memory and later it became a place where pilgrims from all over the country come to visit.

See also

Kurdistan

List of famous mosques

Iranian architecture

References

Cultural Heritage and Tourism; Kurdistan Province

Hajar Khatoon Tomb

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