Borujerd
Borujerd is an old city in Lorestan, a western province of Iran. The city has been populated since 50 AD. Many historical sites and monuments are located in and around the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Asadi s, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Babakgh, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: City with 235,000 residents
- Description: city in Lorestan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “Boroojerd”, “Boroujerd”, “Borudjerd”, “Borugerd”, “Brujerd”, “Burujird”, “Būrūjīrd”, and “اُردکَرد - بَروگرد”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jame‘ Mosque of Borujerd and Sultani Mosque.
Jame‘ Mosque of Borujerd
Mosque
Photo: Asadi, Public domain.
The Jāmeh Mosque of Borujerd is a Shi'ite Friday mosque in Borujerd, Lorestan province, western Iran. Situated in the old district of Borujerd city, previously called Do Dangeh, the Jameh Mosque of Borujerd was built on an ancient fire temple of the pre-Islamic Sasanian Empire in the 3rd century AH, and is the oldest mosque in the Zagros area and western Iran.
Sultani Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Asadi s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Soltani Mosque of Borujerd, also known as the Imam Khomeini Mosque of Borujerd and the Shah Mosque of Borujerd, is a Twelver Shi'ite mosque in central Borujerd, Lorestan province, western Iran.
Imamzadeh Ja’far
Mosque
Photo: Asadi s, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Imāmzādeh Ja‘far is a Shi'ite Imamzadeh and mosque, located in Borujerd, Lorestan province, western Iran. The mausoleum contains the remains of Abulqāsim Ja’far ibn al-Husayn, grandson of the Shī‘ah Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shamsabad and Qaleh-ye Shamsi.
Shamsabad
Village
Shamsabad is a village in Hemmatabad Rural District, in the Central District of Borujerd County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 654, in 143 families.
Qaleh-ye Shamsi
Village
Qaleh-ye Shamsi is a village in Hemmatabad Rural District, in the Central District of Borujerd County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 429, in 109 families.
Goldasht
Village
Goldasht is a village in Hemmatabad Rural District, in the Central District of Borujerd County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 772, in 202 families.
Borujerd
- Categories: city of Iran, big city, and locality
- Location: Lorestan, Western Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.8943° or 33° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
48.7561° or 48° 45′ 22″ eastPopulation
235,000Elevation
1,574 metres (5,164 feet)United Nations Location Code
IR BRJOpen location code
8H5CVQV4+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2411336212OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Borujerd” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بروجرد”
- Armenian: “Բորուջերդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Brucerd”
- Azerbaijani: “Bürucərd”
- Azerbaijani: “Bürucird”
- Breton: “Borujerd”
- Bulgarian: “Боруджерд”
- Catalan: “Barudjird”
- Catalan: “Burudjird”
- Cebuano: “Borūjerd (kapital sa munisipyo sa Iran)”
- Cebuano: “Borūjerd”
- Central Kurdish: “برووجرد”
- Central Kurdish: “ورووگڕ”
- Chinese: “Borujerd”
- Chinese: “博魯傑爾德”
- Chinese: “博鲁杰尔德”
- Croatian: “Borudžerd”
- Czech: “Borúdžerd”
- Danish: “Borujerd”
- Dutch: “Borujerd”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بروجرد”
- Esperanto: “Boruĝerd”
- Esperanto: “Borūjerd”
- Esperanto: “Borunĝuko”
- Finnish: “Barūjerd”
- Finnish: “Borujerd”
- Finnish: “Borūjerd”
- French: “Boroudjerd”
- French: “Boroujerd”
- French: “Borujerd”
- Georgian: “ბორუჯერდი”
- German: “Borudscherd”
- German: “Borujerd”
- Hebrew: “בורוג’רד”
- Hindi: “बोरुजर्द”
- Hindi: “बोरुजेन”
- Hungarian: “Borudzserd”
- Irish: “Borujerd”
- Italian: “Borujerd”
- Italian: “Borūjerd”
- Japanese: “ボルージェルド”
- Kazakh: “Borwdjerd”
- Kazakh: “Боруджерд”
- Kazakh: “بورۋدجەرد”
- Kurdish: “Borûcerd”
- Lithuanian: “Borudžerdas”
- Macedonian: “Боруџерд”
- Malagasy: “Borujerd”
- Malay: “Borujerd”
- Mazanderani: “بروجرد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Borujerd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borujerd”
- Norwegian: “Borujerd”
- Ossetian: “Боруджерд”
- Persian: “بروجرد”
- Persian: “بروگرد”
- Persian: “بوروجيرد”
- Polish: “Borudżerd”
- Portuguese: “Borujerd”
- Romanian: “Borujerd”
- Russian: “Боруджерд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Borudžerd”
- South Azerbaijani: “بروجرد”
- Spanish: “Borujerd”
- Spanish: “Boruyerd”
- Swedish: “Boroojerd”
- Swedish: “Boroujerd”
- Swedish: “Borudjerd”
- Swedish: “Borudzjerd”
- Swedish: “Borudzjird”
- Swedish: “Borugerd”
- Swedish: “Borujerd”
- Swedish: “Brujerd”
- Swedish: “Burudzjird”
- Swedish: “Burujird”
- Tajik: “Burūçird”
- Tajik: “Бурӯҷирд”
- Tatar: “Бөрүҗирд”
- Thai: “โบรูเจร์ด”
- Turkish: “Borucerd”
- Turkish: “Burucerd”
- Ukrainian: “Боруджерд”
- Urdu: “بروجرد”
- Uzbek: “Borujerd”
- Venetian: “Borūjerd”
- Waray (Philippines): “Borujerd”
- Western Armenian: “Պորուճերտ”
- Western Panjabi: “بروجرد”
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