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 ...

Qom is home to both the magnificent shrine of Hazrat-e Masumeh (SA) and the major religious madrasas (schools). Apart from sightseers and pilgrims who visit Qom to pay homage to the holy shrine, the ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative in Qom last week urged pilgrims to continue to visit the shrines. “We consider this holy shrine to be a place of healing. That means people ...

In many western minds, Qom conjures up images of fanatical, power-hungry clerics. It was, after all, in this Shia holy city that some ... Except for the spectacular shrine of Masoumeh, sister ...

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 ...

The religious schools in Qom attract Shiites from across Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Bahrain and other countries, but so too does the holy city’s shrine of Fatima Masumeh, which has remained open and ...

According to Iranian national television, officials from the city of Qom and the holy sites decided to close the Fatima Masumeh Shrine and Jamkaran Mosque to curb the virus’ spread. The Imam ...

QOM (Tasnim) – Thousands of pilgrims eat their Iftar (breaking of fast) meal at the holy shrine of Hazrat Masoumah (AS) in Iran's central city of Qom during the holy month of Ramadan.