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Ashikhade Mosque
The once interesting area of older houses around the blue-domed, 20th-century Ashikhade Mosque has now been largely bulldozed but some curiosities remain if you poke about in the back alleys.
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Covered Bazaar
The extensive, much restored covered bazaar slopes up from Modarres St. It's well worth exploring with a couple of dilapidated old caravanserai courtyards at the western end. Within the bazaar, Ehmad Dohla Mosque (Jewellery Bazaar), entered through an attractive tiled portal, has a Qajar-era clock tower.
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Ehmad Dohla Mosque
The extensive, much restored covered bazaar slopes up from Modarres St. It's well worth exploring with a couple of dilapidated old caravanserai courtyards at the western end. Within the bazaar, Ehmad Dohla Mosque, entered through an attractive tiled portal, has a Qajar-era clock tower.
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Jameh Mosque
The fine Jameh Mosque has a beautiful Yazd-styled twin minaret.
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Takieh Biglar Begi
Distinctively Shiite, Hosseiniehs are shrines where plays are acted out during the Islamic month of Moharram, commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hossein at Karbala (AD 680). Takieh Biglar Begi now houses a fairly cursory calligraphy museum but is worth visiting for its dazzling mirror-tiled central dome-room. To find it take the lane opposite the fine Jameh Mosque (Modarres St), which has a beautiful Yazd-styled twin minaret. Then take the first alley left.
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Takieh Mo'aven ol-Molk
Distinctively Shiite, Hosseiniehs are shrines where plays are acted out during the Islamic month of Moharram, commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hossein at Karbala (AD 680). The finest in Kermanshah is the 1913 Takieh Mo'aven ol-Molk . Enter down stairs, through a courtyard and domed central chamber decorated with grizzly scenes from the great Karbala battle.
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Taq-e Bostan
At the city's northern edge, Kermanshah's star attraction is Taq-e Bostan, a towering cliff inscribed with some extraordinary Sassanian bas-reliefs. They are set in and around a pair of carved alcoves.
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