There is an admirable and surprising amount of antiquities spanning several thousand years old, historical objects from the Islamic period, and sacred relics from the holy shrine within this ... and ...

Visitors to Qom can be classified into two groups of people; sightseers, day-trippers, and pilgrims, who want to pay homage to the holy shrine, and Shiite scholars and students who come from across ...

It was evening when I visited the Fatimah Mesumeh shrine in Qom on Thursday ... design and ornaments mediocre when compared to other holy shrines in Iran, the Fatimah Mesumeh shrine still holds ...

Along with the nearby Feyzieh madrassa, the most distinguished center of Shiite learning in the world, the Masumeh shrine has attracted to Qom a population ... This holy mosh pit sucked me toward ...