Farhang  Sarai Behesht

The outer area of Mashhad Synagogue

The outer area of Mashhad Synagogue

The outer area of Mashhad Synagogue

Pomegranate tree outside Mashhad Synagogue

Mashhad’s synagogue and years of dust

Cleaning up for a photo shoot

Today’s residents of Mashhad Synagogue

A souvenir of the soldier Ramin Sharga 1372

This Sidor is owned by Fathullah, the son of Mr. Musa Amin of, 1343

Members of the Kalimian Khorasani Society in the 1350s in Tehran

A house in Mashhad’s Jewish quarter (Sarhiteh), Mashhad, summer 2014

A view of the former business place of Mashhad Jews in Eidgah of Mashhad, summer 2014

A noble house in the former neighborhood of Kilimian (Sarhiteh) belonging to the 1330s

A view of the former business place of Mashhad Jews in Eidgah of Mashhad in summer

The stone inscription of Haj Ebrahim Amin of Miqveh, located in Eidgah neighborhood (Sar Hayteh) of Kalimiyan neighborhood of Mashhad. The translation of the text of the stone inscription: The construction of the miqveh on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Av 5698 (1937 AD) equal to 1316 . All the cost of this miqveh was donated by Aziz brother and Generous Haj Ab

Some members of the Hakimi family – Mashhad during the Qajar era in 1890 AD

A shop in the area where the head is decorated with the Star of David, Mashhad, summer 2014

Mollah Youssef Dilmani, one of the prominent clerics of Mashhad, teacher of Hebrew language and religious teachings 1364-1280

Midarash Mullah Yousef Dilmani in Mashhad – 1925 AD

Midarash Mollah Yousef Dilmani in Mashhad – early 1300s

Adab school in Mashhad in 1922 AD

A view of the Jewish cemetery in Mashhad 1368

Performance of artistic programs during the viewing and re-viewing of Mashhad’s Kalimiyan Eid in the 1920s

Deceased Rahel Moshateh II, 1877-1942 AD

Mr. Farajolah Nasrolah of Leviyan, 1873-1951

Awards distribution ceremony at Mollah Yousef Dilemani Midarash in Leviyan Synagogue (Sezavar) Tehran 1331

Distribution of kosher food for prisoners of Mashhad in Tashkent by Mr. Ali Akbar Rahmanim – Russia 1930 AD

Mollah Morad Aghalar in Bambay – India in 1940 AD

Mohammad Ebrahim Makhmalbaf (the famous carpet maker) along with Karbalai Agha Jan Rahmani – Mashhad 1334

The gathering of the Jewish women’s community of Mashhad in 1325

Ketubah (marriage certificate) of a Kalimi couple in Mashhad in Hebrew, dated 1853

Ketuba (marriage certificate) of a married couple in Mashhad in Persian and Arabic, dated 1853.

Jewish women in local clothes, the wife of Haji Mehdi Livy and the wife of Suleiman Livy, Mashhad 1334

Elias Livyan’s wife in Mashhad’s engagement dress in 1298 (1920 AD)

The performance of Yusuf and Zuleikha by the Kalimi Youth of Mashhad in 1944

Performance of Berit Mila ceremony (Soran circumcision) in the Livyan family of Mashhad in 1930 AD

Visiting ceremony on Passover (Eid Fatir) at the house of Agha Jan Moshateh, Mashhad, 1927 AD

Yaqub Dilmanian, the author of the book History of the Jews of Mashhad 1906-1988

A view of the public hospital in Sar hiteh Mashhad, 1919

 

Jewish cemetery (Eidgah neighborhood), Mashhad, 1989 AD

Jewish Cemetery (Eidgah neighborhood) Mashhad 1989 AD

A view of the Jewish cemetery in Mashhad in 1989

 Musa Aziz, one of the last Kalimi families living in Mashhad’s Eidgah alley in 1989

The view from under the market of Mashhad in 1975

Passover days, the most spectacular ceremony of Mashhad 1314

Mohammad Ebrahim Rahmani (Ebrahim of) and his family in Mashhad 1309

“Azizolahof” brothers in the local dress of the Qajar period of Mashhad 1309

A view of the market, the house of ‘Azizolah of’, where the trading house of many Anousi traders was located, Mashhad 1311

The wedding ceremony of Mollah Abraham ghasab, Mashhad, 1930 AD

Mollah “Yousef Zar” – Mashhad 1902-1978

The late ‘Mola Maryam’, the first female founder of the school in Mashhad in 1298 (1920 AD)

Students of Otser Hatorah School with a group of parents and teachers in Mashhad in the early 1940s.

Zubaydah wife of ‘Esmail Rajabzadeh’ Hakimi 1967 1883 AD

Karbalai, Nowruz Kalati, Mashhad, 1284

Plaque (tile) of Koche Mohammadieh <<Eidgah neighborhood>> Mashhad 1300s

Jewish cemetery (Eidgah neighborhood) Mashhad 1920 AD

A map of Eidgah neighborhood in Mashhad, prepared by the Shareh Tova Association of New York in 1998

Midrash (school) of Mullah Youssef Dilmani, Mashhad, 1933 AD

Abdul Rahim Etsami, one of the servants and head of the Mashhad Jewish Association

Shehita class of Mollah Yousef Dilmani and Mullah Yousef Zar in the place of Livyan Synagogue (Sezavar) in Tehran, 1960 AD

Eidgah Cemetery, with Gohar Shad Mosque and Razavi Shrine, photo by Abdullah Qajar, belonging to Golestan Palace Museum

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