Imamzadeh Hamza and Imamzadeh Ahmad: Entering the inner sanctuary

Beautiful artwork but relatively very simple casing for a great personality.

With this final post on this site we say goodbye to Imamzadeh Hamzeh (as) and Imamzadeh Ahmad (as) until we return again.

We actually did meet a young lady at this site, an astronomer who kindly invited us to her talks at the observatory not to far from our home.  Perhaps we will cover that in one of our very near posts.  She also helped us find another nearby Imamzadeh 'Chehel Athtaron' the site of 40 sisters who traveled with Lady Masouma (as) to Qom.  It is said that they were martryed here too.  The site also holds the bodies of one other son of Musa Ibn Jafar's (as) sons and some members of his family including his wife, but we will cover that in another post.

Imamzadehs Hamzeh and Ahmad - Qom: The artwork of the walls and arches

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Here we can see the immense size of the walls and the art.

One of the fallen tiles.  It was explained to us that these pieces can not be relaced now because the color can not be matched due to the age as well as the wearing of the original color from the sun.

The children with the caretaker of the site who gave us all the information.  Behind them is the room where Imamzadeh Hamza (as) is buried.  We were able to go in but not able to offer prayers there as it was under construction since 'eid e borzorg' the Big Eid whicn in Iran refers to Nowruz.  This site relies on donations to keep it maintained as it is 'azad' or independently looked after and does not rely on any funds from the government.  We offered prayers in the adjacent room which was the room of 

Imamzadeh Hamza's (as) grandson, Imamzadeh Ahmad.  

As you can see here, even the doors were ornate and quite intricately hand worked.