Mashhad Shopping

  1. Bazaar-e Fash

    Mashhad is a great place to buy carpets. Half hidden through deceptively small doorways, both Bazaar-e Fash and Saroye Saeed are multi-unit carpet markets mostly aimed at bulk dealers so prices can be excellent. Both places have interesting top-floor repair workshops and remarkably there seems to be no sales pressure.

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  2. Bazar-e Reza

    Upstairs in the 800m-long Bazar-e Reza, jewellery stalls proffer turquoise (mined at nearby Neishabur) but their sales pitch is often more impressive than their gems.

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  3. Carpet Bazaar

    The wobbly, wooden-ceilinged old Carpet Bazaar is more commercial-minded than other sellers, but slated for eventual demolition if the shrine's expansion continues.

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  4. Friday Book Market

    The Friday Book Market is good for English-language magazines including the Economist . Blind peddlers outside the Haram near Falakeh Ab sell excellent city maps.

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  5. Mahtab Passaj

    Several bookshops stock maps, dictionaries and the odd English book, notably those in Mahtab Passaj. Blind peddlers outside the Haram near Falakeh Ab sell excellent city maps.

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  6. Saroye Saeed

    Mashhad is a great place to buy carpets. Half hidden through deceptively small doorways, both Bazaar-e Fash and Saroye Saeed are multi-unit carpet markets mostly aimed at bulk dealers so prices can be excellent. Both places have interesting top-floor repair workshops and remarkably there seems to be no sales pressure.

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