Nain is a city in and the capital of Nain County

Nain County

Nain County is a county in Isfahan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Nain. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 54,298, in 15,919 families; excluding those portions, the population was 36,810 in 10,995 families...

, Isfahan Province, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 24,424, in 6,950 families.

It has one of the earliest remaining mosques in Iran, and has a Sassanid era fort, now in ruins, called Narin Ghal'eh.

It extensively uses ab anbar

Ab Anbar

An āb anbār is a traditional reservoir or cistern of drinking water in Persian antiquity. The Persian phrase literally translates as "water reservoir".-The structure:...

s. Naein is most famous in the world for its rugs

Nain rug

Nain rugs are constructed using the Persian knot and can be between 300 and 700 knots per inch. The pile is usually very high quality wool, clipped short and silk is most usually used as highlighting for parts of the detailing in the design. Some pieces are made entirely of silk. Nain rugs are...

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Famous people from Naein

• Reja Ghanbari Naeini, Founder of Al Zahra Hospital for Women with Mental Retardation in Naein, well known carpet trader and humanitarian. 1951-2007.
• Hassan Pirnia
  Hassan Pirnia
  Hassan Pirnia was a prominent politician of twentieth century Iran. He held a total of twenty-four posts during his political career, serving four times as Prime Minister.His father was Mirza Nasrullah Khan, a Prime Minister during the Qajar era...
  
   or Moshiroddoleh , Prime minister of Iran in Qajar Dynasty
  Qajar dynasty
  The Qajar dynasty was an Iranian royal family of Turkic descent who ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925....
  
   and author, 1871-1935.
• Dr. Hossein Fatemi
  Hossein Fatemi
  Hossein Fatemi was a scholar, journalist, and famous politician of Iran. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas assets. Initially a journalist, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953...
  
  , , Minister of foreign affairs in Mossadeq's cabinet, 1919-1954.
• Ali Kaffashian, president of the Iranian Football Federation
• mohammad Hosein Naeini, , One of the first Iraninan clergies questioning dictatorship in Iran, Author of the book Tanbih-ol-ommah va tanzih-ol-mellah, 1861-??.
• Dr. Seyed Gholamreza Jalali Naeini, President of the Iranian Ergonomics
  Ergonomics
  Ergonomics is the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movements, and its cognitive abilities.The International Ergonomics Association defines ergonomics as follows:...
  
   Society, Chairman of the Iranian Management Association and former UN official and ILO
  Ilo
  Ilo is a port city in southern Peru, with some 58,000 inhabitants. It is the largest city in the Moquegua Region and capital of the province of Ilo.-History:...
  
   Chief Technical Advisor for SADC.
• Majid M. Naini, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering/Author/Speaker http://www.naini.net Born 1953 in Allabot.
• Vahid M. Naini, Doctor of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Professional. Born 1968 in Esfahan.
• Rashid Massumi, M.D., Physician and Professor, Pioneer in the fields of Electrophysiology and Cardiology

Jame Mosque

The initial construction of Jame Mosque dates back to the 8th century A.D, but the complex has been constructed periodically. This is one of the oldest mosques in Iran, with features including magnificent plaster working over the niche, marvelous brick work around the yard, and a basement which some say used to be a fire temple before the mosque was built here.

This mosque has no Iwan and dome, unlike the other famous mosques in Esfahan and Yazd.

External links

• NaeinNews.ir
• Naein News
• Pictures of Naein and its vicinity townships
• Photographs of Nā'in:

— Nā'in: (1), (2).

— Masjed-e Jāme'eh Nā'in: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8).

— The Anthropological Museum of Nā'in: (1), (2).