Shrine of Fatima Masoumeh
Shrine of Fatima Masoumeh The holy shrine of Masumeh (Q), located in Qom, is the largest and most important religious attraction of the city, which attracts lots of pilgrims daily, from all over Iran and other countries. This magnificent building is located in the heart of Qom city and dates back to the 3rd century AH. In addition to the shrine of Masoumeh, other buildings are also located in the shrine complex. Faizia School, Astana Museum and Library are among them.
The holy shrine has three courtyards:
1- new courtyard(Atabaki)
This beautiful courtyard has four northern, southern and eastern and western porches, its northern entrance is from the entrance to the Astaneh and the southern porch from the entrance to the qibla and the eastern porch from the entrance to Eram and the western porch is the same as the Avon Mirror. This courtyard is one of the works (Misra Ali Asghar Khan, the Chancellor), which has been built since 1295 AD until the year 1303.
2- Atigh courtyard (old)
The ancient courtyard (located north of the Mobarakeh Rowzeh) is the first scene built on this mosque barracks, which has paved the square for four beautiful porches. A porch with a greatness in the south, the same as the porch of gold (entrance to the courtyard of the Motahareh), and a porch in the north that forms the entrance of Fayziyah to the courtyard, which the place of where the drums are beaten at fixed intervals, and the porch in the west, which enters the mosque to the courtyard and East which Entrance to the Old Courtyard. The courtyard and the porches around it were built by Shah Beygy, the wife of Shah Isma’il Safavid in 925 AH. Since 1998, major repairs have begun in the area around the courtyard, which continues until now.
3- Sahib Alzaman courtyard
The courtyard with its houses with an area of about 8,000 square meters with four entrances, started in 2002 and was opened in 2005. (Eastern entrance of Imam Khomeini’s Shrine, entrance to the of the Ahanchi Bridge, the entrance to the main entrance of the Azam Mosque, the south entrance of New Azad Street) the walls surrounding the courtyard are engraved with Quranic inscriptions with lines of banaie and Kofi in a new structure and design with a combination of white cement and brick.