Hajar Khatoon Mosque (in

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: مزگت هاجه رخاتوون, in

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: مسجد هاجرخاتون) is architecturally a unique and ancient Muslim mosque (now a tourist destination) in the city of

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in Kurdistan Province,

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. Hajar Khatoon Mosque was built more than hundred years ago by Haj Sheikh Shokrollah who was a very prominent

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or Sheikh in that region.

Shrine

In 813 AD and after the death of Hajar Khatoon; daughter of

Seventh Shīʻa Imām Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim ( ar, مُوسَىٰ ٱبْن جَعْفَر ٱلْكَاظِم, Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar al-Kāẓim), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan, Abū ʿAbd Allāh or Abū Ibrāhīm, was the seventh Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, after hi ...

and sister of

eighth Shīʻa Imām Ali ibn Musa al-Rida ( ar, عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُوسَىٰ ٱلرِّضَا, Alī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā, 1 January 766 – 6 June 818), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the e ...

, a shrine was built to commemorate her memory and later it became a place where pilgrims from all over the country come to visit.

References

* Cultural Heritage and Tourism; Kurdistan Province
Hajar Khatoon Tomb
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