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Sarkis Church
The relatively central Sarkis Church serves the Armenian community. It’s hidden in a basketball court behind high white gates.
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Narin Castle
Crumbling Narein castle , in the centre of town, dates from Sassannian times and affords desert-rooftop views across town.
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Municipal Hall
The German-designed Municipal Hall is a century-old Tabriz icon. It’s only open to the public during occasional exhibitions.
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Masjid
The partly 9th-century Jameh Mosque has a truncated, gently leaning minaret and sits in a quiet tree-filled quadrangle of fruit-sellers.
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Silk Road Gallery
Silk Road’s primary focus is photographic art, but it also delves into other media. It’s professionally run and a pleasure to visit.
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Nature Museum
A small Nature Museum , which displays stuffed birds, local animals, pinned insects and pickled snakes, notice the bottled human foetuses.
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Ali Sadr Caves
For most Iranians these highly commercialised caves constitute quite simply western Iran’s greatest tourist attraction. You might not agree.
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Mirza Ali Akbar Mosque
Near the Haji Fakr mosque, the attractively brick-vaulted Mirza Ali Akbar Mosque has a blue Kufic-tiled exterior frieze and lighthouse-style minaret.
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Cistern
There’s an old cistern beside what appears to be a fortress tower , but was actually a decorative element from a now demolished cotton factory.
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Ghuri Gahleh Cave
The slippery-floored Ghuri Gahleh Cave , which claims to be Asia’s longest, but what you see is very disappointing and somewhat claustrophobic.
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Babol Museum
Visit Babol Museum , an attractive colonial-style mansion containing a few ethnographic displays, antique saddles, and dervish paraphernalia.
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Minar
The 20m-high pale brick tower called Minar-e Ajon might look like a chimney but it was actually a 900-year-old signalling point for caravans.
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Maryam Church
Found just off Taleqani St, this former church has an unusual old stone pyramid as its central dome and now hosts a zurkhaneh (house of strength).
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Hazrat Museum
Inside the bathhouse is this museum displaying 3000-year-old pottery from the nearby archaeological site of Hissar, plus some pretty photos of Semnan Province.
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inscribed Stone
In a stone-edged circle beside thundering Shari’ati St is an inscribed stone from around AD 1150, apparently setting out details of local grazing rights.
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Molana Mosque
Taybad’s main attraction is the imposing 1444 Molana Mosque , whose towering iwan is of a similar grandeur to that of the Jami complex in Torbat-e Jam.
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Ainekhane
Ainekhane , a psychedelically coloured Qajar-era mansion. Get the key from North Khorasan Tourism directly opposite the rather grand Emarat Mofarkham building .
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Shahrchay Dam
A popular local weekend excursion is to this dam (19km west of the museum), combined with chay (tea) at one of the riverside teahouses in Band (9km from Orumiyeh).
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Jameh Mosque (Masjed
The Mongol Ilkhanid Congregational Mosque was once a truly gigantic brick edifice and like the Seh Gonbad in Orumiyeh built on the site of a Sassanian fire temple.
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Qazvin Museum
This spacious modern museum predominantly features 19th-century decorative arts but the bottom floor has some 3000-year-old bronzes and ceramics from the Alamut Valley.
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