Grand Mosalla mosque of Tehran

Grand Mosalla mosque of Tehran (The Imam Khomeini Mosalla) is a location for holding weekly Friday prayer and cultural, political, educational, worship activities including book fairs and religious ceremonies.

History

On 1982, the Mosalla of Tehran was offered to replace the University of Tehran as a location for the weekly Jumu'ah (Friday Prayer) and for it was intended the lands of Abbas Abad, which became the site for the never-materialized mega project of Shahestan Pahlavi before the Iranian Revolution.[1] On 19 February 1985, after issuance of a public announcement on devising the Mosalla and recalling talented and experienced designers for projecting, The competition was held in 1986 with Mohammad Karim Pirnia, Mehdi Chamran, Bagher Ayatollahzadeh Shirazi, Ali Ghaffari, and Mehdi Hodjat as the jury members and with participation 36 native and foreign individuals from such countries as Japan, Syria, Pakistan, and the Netherlands and as well as legal entities. On 1990, finally, Dr. Parviz Moayed Ahd’s design was confirmed for the Mosalla, a design based on Islamic architecture of Iran and Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, which formerly were part of Iran. [2]

Shabestan of Imam Mosalla, the venue for some book fairs

Uses of Imam Khomeini Mosalla

The Imam Khomeini Mosalla is a venue for some of the community centers as including:[3]

  • Location for the weekly Friday congregation
  • The major site for congregations
  • The major site for exhibitions in north Tehran:Some of them including:
  1. International Holy Quran Exhibition[4]
  2. Tehran International Book Fair[5][6]
  3. The International Exhibition of Investment Opportunities in Iran's Mines and Mining industries[7]
  4. International Handicrafts Exhibition[8]

Public transport access
  • Mosalla Imam Khomeini Metro Station is a station in Tehran Metro.[9] It is located in Mosalla of Tehran next to Resalat Expressway.
  • Mosalla BRT Station in Line 5: Science & Tech (Elm-o-san'at (Persian: دانشگاه علم و صنعت‎) Terminal to Argentina Sq. (Beihaghi Terminal)[10][11]
  • Grand Mosalla mosque of Tehran

See also

References
  1. "Annual Report and Balance Sheet of Iranian Central Bank ("Bānk Markazī Īrān), Published by Bank Markazi Iran, 1972 (excerpts available courtesy of Google Book Search)"
  2. "PROJECT GENERAL INFORMATION".
  3. "Delays in Mosalla Construction Unacceptable".
  4. "10 Islamic Countries Participating at Tehran's Int'l Quran Exhibition".
  5. Shariatmadari, Parto. "Tehran's biggest annual cultural event held amid 'paper crisis'". al-monitor.
  6. "Over 60,000 titles published in Iran over past year".
  7. "18 countries attend Int'l Exhibition of Mining Investment Opportunities".
  8. "Handicrafts on display at Tehran intl. show".
  9. "نقشه مترو". metro.tehran.ir. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  10. Yeongpyo. "Tehran BRT Bus Map 2017".
  11. "Tehran Bus".

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