Sights in Kermanshah
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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. The shrine remains very much active, pilgrims kissing the doors and looking genuinely moved by the ‘footprint of Ali’ on the wall of the second courtyard. This is set amid tiles depicting a wacky gamut of images from Quranic scenes, to pre-Islamic gods including Shahnameh kings, European villages and local notables…
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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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Taq-e Bostan
- Kermanshah, Iran
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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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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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Takieh Biglar Begi
The lesser known Takieh Biglar Begi now houses a fairly cursory calligraphy museum, but is worth visiting for its dazzling mirror-tiled central dome-room.
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Jameh Mosque
The Jameh Mosque, which has a beautiful Yazd-styled twin minaret.
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