IMAM REZA SHRINE RECEIVES BELGIAN TOURISTS
Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency, Iran
Oct 18 2005
A group of Belgian tourists will visit Imam Reza and Hazrat-e Masumeh
Mausoleums during January holidays.
Tehran, 18 October 2005 (CHN) — European tourists leave on holiday
trips around the world every January. This coming January a group
of Belgian and Luxembourgians will make a 14-day visit to historical
cities of Iran, visiting two holy shrines of Shiites.
The group is going to visit Kerman, Shiraz, Isfahan, Yazd, Qom, and
Mashhad, spending the New Year Eve in the shrine of Imam Reza, the
8th Imam of Shiite Muslims, in Mashhad city in the eastern province of
Khorasan-e Razavi, and Hazrat-e Masumeh, Imam Reza’s sister, in Qom,
near Capital Tehran.
“Last year we arranged for our European tourists to participate in
the New Year ceremony of Armenians of Iran. This year, with the
coordination of the international office of the shrines, we have
arranged for bringing European tourists to the religious ceremonies of
Muslims and to give them the chance to have a talk with the clerics
of the shrines,” says Mehdi Yavar Negoon, manager of Shideh travel
agency in Shiraz which is in charge of bringing in the tourists.
According to Yavar Negoon, since Europeans are the most adve6nturous
tourists of the world, who are always interested in experiencing new
things, “one of the various programs which can be proposed to them
is participating in Muslim religious ceremonies which will be a new
experience for them.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress