Qom Shopping

Bazaar

The streets of Quill are full of animation, and the shops (and particularly the stalls around the Holy Shrine) do a flourishing trade in religious objects, particularly its bazaar is very active every day but Friday. Here, like in Mash had, the mai\1attracfor tourists, rather than decoration or archi, lies in the behavior of the crowd of humble pilgrims tor whom the journey is the achievement of the dream a whole lite, that of the dignified mullahs with their black and white turbans and fine linen clothes, that finally of small merchants sell thousands of candles and prayer-beads, prayer-rugs and small tablets of compressed earth {mohr) used in Muslim pr, colored earthenware animals, piles of pomegranates and delicious local sweets, particularly sohan.
One sweet you must try is the almost sinfully delicious pistachio-brittle known as sohan, which is produced locally and is available in almost any main street of the town. Not sickly sweet like so much Iranian confectionery, sohan becomes an obsession once you've tasted it.
If you have planned to buy a carpet in Iran, remember that the best and finest silk carpets are woven here in Quill, Samples of such carpets are kept in the town's museum, shrines of Safavid king, and the Holy Sanctuary. Use an Iranian friend as your advisor to see that everything goes on in your interest.