Qom
Travel Blogs from Qom, Iran
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Leaving Tehran
... down the road before there was a break in the highway and we were frantic Lou and Lynn might follow us in the direction of Qom again. It was very stressful because a large majority of the vehicles driving on the road did not have any lights on. We don't ...
mullad
Linn kubiseb mulladest, nagu oligi arvata. Iga tavalise inimese kohta vist paar turbaniga tegelast. Aga kaubandus õitseb, nii et palverändurid peavad olema head kliendid. Ainsasse vaatamisväärsusse meid sisse ei lasta. Tegemist imaam Reza õe ...
Qom
... eventually avert my eyes. I guess they must believe that life in America is really like that. In no time we rolled into Qom. Iran does have a very good transportation infrastructure at absurdly low prices. The bus ticket to Qom only cost me 10,000 rial, ...
Sublime Road (1/2) : Qom,
... en théologie à Qom (capitale intellectuelle du monde chiite) et avec qui nous conversâmes (hum) une bonne heure sur l'Iran, l'Islam, le monde musulman et ses rapports avec l'occident. Décidément emballé par cette soirée chiite, j'atteignai le ...
Desert Camping south of Tehran
Lu returned from a trip to Tehran very early during the morning with bad news from the Pakistan embassy that they couldn't do any more to help than what had already been done, so for the moment we would continue as per the itinerary, and make the call on ...
The Mothership
... then Qom is it. Set up as a rival to the other Sh'ia seat of high religious though and practice in Najaf, Qom is Iran's Vatican City. Undoubtedly, its main shrine to Fatimeh is beautiful and moving. Daughter of the 7th Sh'ia Immam and ...
Qom
From Kashan we continued on another few hours and stopped in at Qom, the center of theological study in Iran and it was teeming with mullahs. A very, very conservative city and at one point I thought Kate was going to go back to the car since ...
A Holy City and a Storm of Biblical Proportions
Our last afternoon in Iran was spent driving from Kashan to Qom, one of the pilgrimage cities of Iran. It is here that Fatima, the sister of the eighth (and last) imam, is buried. Unlike other places that we had visited, Western tourists were not ...
Visiting the Library
... ; Qom is like Mecca, Disneyland and Las Vegas all rolled into one. Halfway between Shiraz and Tehran, in the lovely country of Iran, it's the home of the Shiite Muslims who rule Iran. I was there on a peace mission with 23 other Americans who had ...
A flighting visit to Qom
... welcome in the broken English that was spoken. We were then given a brief tour by one of the younger guys who was studying religion in Qom. He took us to the actual shrine, where we had to take our shoes off before we could enter. Before we went in, he ...
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