page_title: Qazvin Province
section_title: City gates and other edifices
hierarchical_section_title: Qazvin Province / Main sights / City gates and other edifices
caption_attribution_description: English: I am the photographer. Scanned from my slides. w:en:Category:Jewish images
context_page_description: Qazvin Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the north-west of the country, and its center is the city of Qazvin. The province was created in 1993 out of part of Tehran Province. The counties of Qazvin Province are Qazvin County, Takestan County, Abyek County, Buin Zahra County, Mobarakeh County, Alborz County & Avaj County. The largest cities are Qazvin, Takestan, Abyek, Alvand, Iran, Bidestan, Mobarakeh, Mohammadiyeh & Eqbaliyeh.
  The province was put as part of Region 1 upon the division of the provinces into 5 regions solely for coordination and development purposes on June 22, 2014.
  The province had a population of 1.2 million people by the 2011 census, of which 68.05% lived in cities and 31.95% in villages. The ratio of men to women is 50.7 to 49.3%. 99.61% of the province population were Muslims and 0.39% of the rest came from other religions. The literacy rate is over 82%, ranking 7th in Iran.
context_section_description: During the 9th century AD seven gates made entrance to the city possible. In Qajar period there existed nine gates surrounding the city which were connected to each other through a wall around the city. These gates (darvāzeh in Persian) were:
  Panbeh Riseh
  Sheikh Abad
  Rasht
  Maghlävak
  Khandaghbar
  Shahzadeh Hossein
  Mossala
  Tehran
  Räh e Koushk
  Due to 20th century hasty urban expansion, only the last two gates remain standing. Other popular attractions of Qazvin province include:
  Chehel Sotun Museum-Palace
  Hosseinieh Aminiha, a fine example of Traditional Persian residential architecture indigenous to Qazvin.
  Shah Abbasi Bridge
  Safa Traditional Bath
  Qajar Traditional Bath
caption: Peihgambariyeh ("the place of the prophets"). The mausoleum contains the resting place of four Jewish saints.
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