{"id":19997,"date":"2017-10-07T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T08:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/?p=19997"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:30:03","slug":"qalishuyan-carpet-washing-ritual-mashhad-ardahal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/qalishuyan-carpet-washing-ritual-mashhad-ardahal\/","title":{"rendered":"Qalishuyan Ritual in Mashhad: Iran’s Cultural Heritage Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Qalishuyan “carpet-washing ceremony” is a huge gathering in Ardeh\u0101l, at a 800m-long site, between Em\u0101mz\u0101de Solt\u0101n Ali ebn Mohammad B\u0101qer Mausoleum (abbreviated as Solt\u0101n Ali) and the holy stream beside \u0160\u0101hz\u0101de Hoseyn Mausoleum yard, where a holy carpet is washed as part of a live ritualistic procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the majority of Iranian rituals that follow a rotating lunar calendar, Qalishuyan<\/a> is attended according to a fixed solar-agricultural calendar, requiring it around the nearest Friday to the 17th day of the month of Mehr (October 8th), called Jom’e-ye Q\u0101li (“carpet Friday”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of people of Fin and X\u0101ve constitute the practitioners; a greater crowd attends as witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qishuyan ritual in Kashan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Jom’e-ye Q\u0101li morning, the people of X\u0101ve gather at Solt\u0101n Ali to sprinkle rose-flower on a donated carpet they select. Having done the wrapping rituals, they, then, deliver it to the people of Fin outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holding neatly cut and beautifully decorated wooden sticks, the people of Fin run to take the lead in getting a grasp of the carpet, and carrying it to the running water, cleaned of pollutions and mixed with rose-water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A corner of the carpet is rinsed; the rest is covered with drops sprinkled with the sticks. The carpet is, then, returned to the mausoleum and delivered to the servants inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rituals are to express love and loyalty toward Solt\u0101n Ali, who is claimed to have been martyred in the same place and carried to his resting place on a carpet, instead of a shroud.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photos by: Irna (Islamic Republic News Agency)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Witness the Qalishuyan, Mashhad Ardahal’s profound carpet-washing ritual, reflecting centuries-old reverence and tradition in a vibrant community event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,306,308,305,15729,110],"tags":[826,5354],"class_list":["post-19997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism-iran","category-culture","category-destinations","category-how-to","category-kashan","category-news","tag-muharram","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}