Qom Space Center | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-03-27

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qom


00:01:30 1 Geography
00:03:35 1.1 Climate
00:04:26 2 History
00:28:14 3 Governance
00:28:39 3.1 Old districts
00:28:48 3.2 Modern districts
00:28:57 4 Tourism
00:29:06 4.1 Historical and cultural heritage
00:29:26 4.2 Museums
00:29:37 4.3 Hotels
00:29:46 5 Educational institutions
00:30:25 5.1 Hawzah 'Ilmiyya Qom (Qom Seminary)
00:31:05 5.2 Universities and seminaries
00:31:15 5.3 Fordow uranium enrichment facility
00:32:06 5.4 Qom space center
00:32:26 6 Twin towns
00:32:37 7 Gallery
00:32:46 8 See also



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Qom (pronunciation ) (Persian: قم‎) is the seventh metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran.  Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located 140 km to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census its population was 1,201,158. It is situated on the banks of the Qom River.
Qom is considered holy by Shiʿa Islam, as it is the site of the shrine of Fatimah bint Musa, sister of Imam Ali ibn Musa Rida (Persian Imam Reza, 789–816 CE). The city is the largest center for Shiʿa scholarship in the world, and is a significant destination of pilgrimage, with around twenty million pilgrims visiting the city every year, the majority being Iranians but also other Shi'a Muslims from all around the world. Qom is famous for a Persian brittle toffee known as Sohan (Persian: سوهان), considered a souvenir of the city and sold by 2,000 to 2,500 “Sohan” shops.
Qom has developed into a lively industrial centre owing in part to its proximity to Tehran. It is a regional centre for the distribution of petroleum and petroleum products, and a natural gas pipeline from Bandar Anzali and Tehran and a crude oil pipeline from Tehran run through Qom to the Abadan refinery on the Persian Gulf. Qom gained additional prosperity when oil was discovered at Sarajeh near the city in 1956 and a large refinery was built between Qom and Tehran.