Hajar Khatoon Mosque (in Kurdish: مسجد هاجرخاتون) is architecturally a unique and ancient Muslim mosque (now a tourist destination) in the city of Sanandaj in the Iranian Kurdistan. Kurdish may refer to: The Kurdish people The Kurdish language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Sanandaj or Senna (Kurdish: Sine;) (Persian: سنندج) is the capital of the province Kurdistan, which is situated in the Kurdish dominated western part of Iran It had an estimated population of 358,084 in 2006 [1] The city of Sanandaj is the capital of the province, and lies at a distance... Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana ÃŽranê [1] or Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) [2] or Rojhilatê Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan) [3]) is an unofficial name for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq and Turkey. ...

Hajar Khatoon Mosque was built more than hundred years ago by Haj Sheikh Shokrollah who was a very prominent Sunni cleric or Sheikh in that region. Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... A cleric is: A member of the clergy of a religion, especially one that has trained or ordained priests, preachers, or other religious professionals; or A member of a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and similar fantasy role-playing games. ...

Shrine

In 813 AD and after the death of Hajar Khatoon; daughter of Seventh Shīˤa Imām and sister of eighth Shīˤa Imām, A shrine was built to commemorate her memory and later it became a place where pilgrims from all over the country come to visit. Pilgrims is the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony. ...

See also

• Kurdistan
• List of famous mosques

Kurdistan (literally meaning the land of big sweaty turds[1]; old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia, also in Kurdish: Kurdewarî) is the name of an imaginary non-existing geographic and cultural region in the Middle East. ... A partial list of famous mosques: Al-Aqsa, in Jerusalem Al-Azhar, the great mosque of Cairo, Egypt, whose university is the foremost school of Sunni Islam Al-Hakim Mosque, one of the largest Fatimid mosques in Cairo, Egypt Ar-Rifaye Mosque, in Cairo, Egypt Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India...

References

• Cultural Heritage and Tourism; Kurdistan Province
• Hajar Khatoon Tomb