Jamkaran Mosque
Jamkarān Mosque ( Persian مسجد جمکران Masjed-e Dschamkaran , DMG Masǧed Ǧamkarān-e ) is a twelve-Shia place of prayer in Qom .
The construction and development of the Jamkaran Mosque is based on a tradition according to which the 12th Imam , called Mahdi , appeared there after his so-called little secrecy . The Sheikh Hassan ibn Muthlih Jamkarani received a revelation in 994 after the Mahdi who appeared to him ordered a mosque to be built around the well there. Today the Jamkaran Fountain and the associated mosque are one of the largest Shiite pilgrimage sites in Iran .
literature
- MA Amir-Moezzi : “Jamkaran et Mahan: deux pèlerinages insolites en Iran,” in Ders. (Ed.): Lieux d'Islam. Cultes et cultures de l'Afrique à Java . Paris, 1996, pp. 154-67.
- Jean Calmard: "Jamkarān" in Encyclopaedia Iranica ( Online )
Web links
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Coordinates: 34 ° 38 ′ 32 " N , 50 ° 52 ′ 42" E