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Khalid Nabi Shrine in Northeast Iran

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Khalid Nabi shrine is near Gonbad-e Kavous city in Golestan province in northeastern Iran near the border with Turkmenistan.

Khalid Nabi, according to oral tradition of the Yomut Turkomans was a pre-Islamic prophet and his mausoleum is visited by them for pilgrimage together with the neighboring one of Ata Chofun ("Father Shepherd"), his son-in-law.

 

 
 
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