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Synagogues In Iran
List of active synagogues in Iran Tehran * Abdollah Zadeh Synagogue * Abrishami Synagogue * Aziz-Khan Synagogue * Bagh-e Saba Synagogue (:fa:کنیسه باغ صبا, fa) * Danial Synagogue (History of Jews in Poland, Polish) * Darvazeh Dowlat Synagogue * Ettefagh Synagogue (History of the Jews in Iraq, Iraqi) * Ettehad Synagogue * Ezra Yaghoub Synagogue * Fakhrabad Synagogue * Gisha Synagogue * Gorgan Synagogue * Haim Synagogue * Hakim Asher Synagogue * HaRambam Synagogue (Rambam Synagogue) * Kohan Synagogue * Kourosh Synagogue * Khorasaniha Synagogue (Mashhadi Jews, Mashhadi) * Levian Synagogue * Mahariv Synagogue * Molla Hanina Synagogue * Nosrat Synagogue * Orsharga Synagogue * Pol-e-Choobi Synagogue, Pol-e Choobi Synagogue * Rafi-Nia Synagogue * Rah-e Danesh Synagogue * Seyed-Khandan Synagogue * Tafian (Hakim) (Pesyan) Synagogue (:fa:کنیسه پسیان, fa) * Tarasht Synagogue * Yusef Abad Synagogue, Yousefabad Synagogue * Yousefzadeh Synagogue * Zargarian Synagogue S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
