Kandahar Provincial Museum
The Kandahar Museum is a museum located in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It has around 1,900 artifacts.- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Kandahar
- Also known as: “Kandahar Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cloak of Muhammad and Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet.
Cloak of Muhammad
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Cloak of Muhammad is an Islamic relic hidden inside one of the buildings in Khirka Sharif in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The relic is a khirqa believed to have been worn by the Islamic prophet Muhammad during the Night Journey in 621 AD. Cloak of Muhammad is situated 380 metres west of Kandahar Provincial Museum.
Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet
Mosque
The Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet, also known as Jame Mui Mobarak, is a mosque located near the Kabul Bazaar, in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet is situated 770 metres south of Kandahar Provincial Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kandahar and Arghandab.
Kandahar
Kandahar is the capital of Kandahar province, and the largest city in Southern Afghanistan. Kandahar is also the second largest city in Afghanistan after the capital Kabul, and was the first capital of the modern state of Afghanistan in the 18th century.
Arghandab
Town
Photo: PRTkand, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The town of Arghandab is the center of Arghandab District in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in the valley of Arghandab River northwest from Kandahar. It is located on at an elevation of 1,112 metres. Arghandab is situated 7 km northwest of Kandahar Provincial Museum.
Kandahar Provincial Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Kandahar District, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.62037° or 31° 37′ 13″ northLongitude
65.7119° or 65° 42′ 43″ eastOpen location code
8J37JPC6+4QOpenStreetMap ID
way 1349255176OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q6361210
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In Other Languages
From Central Kurdish to Uzbek—“Kandahar Provincial Museum” goes by many names.
- Central Kurdish: “مۆزەخانەی پارێزگای قەندەھار”
- Persian: “موزه ولایت قندهار”
- Pushto: “کندهار ولایتي موزیم”
- Russian: “Кандагарский Провинциальный Музей”
- Spanish: “Museo provincial de Kandahar”
- Uzbek: “Qandahor muzeyi”
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Highlights include د ارګ دروازه and د کندهار ولايت مقام.
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