Hajar Khatoon Mosque
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Hajar Khatoon Mosque is architecturally a unique and ancient Muslim mosque (now a tourist destination) in the city of Sanandaj
Sanandaj
Sanandaj , also Romanized as Senneh and Sinneh) is a city in and the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 311,446, in 81,380 families....

 in the Iranian Kurdistan
Iranian Kurdistan
Iranian Kurdistan is an unofficial name for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province and parts of West Azerbaijan province....

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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.

Shrine

In 813 AD and after the death of Hajar Khatoon; daughter of Seventh Shīʻa Imām and sister of eighth Shīʻa Imām, A shrine was built to commemorate her memory and later it became a place where pilgrims
Pilgrims
Pilgrims , or Pilgrim Fathers , is a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States...

from all over the country come to visit.
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