List of current Iranian Friday prayers imams

فهرست امامان نماز جمعه فعلی ایران

(Wikipedia) - This is a list of current Iranian Friday prayers Imams, sorted according to the city: Ardabil: Hassan Ameli Bojnourd: Habibollah Mehmannavaz Gorgan: Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi Isfahan: Yousef Tabatabaee before: jalal-aldin taheri Karaj: Kazerooni Mahabad: Mamousta Ghader-Sohrabi (Sunni) Mashhad: Seyyed Mehdi Ebadi Paveh: Mamousta Molla Ghader Ghaderi (Sunni) Qom: Ebrahim Amini (temporary), Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli (temporary) Rafsanjan: Hojjat ol-Eslam Hashemian Ray: Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri, Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi (temporary) Shiraz: Ayatollah Mohyeddim Haeri Shirazi Tabriz: Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari Tehran: Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Emami-Kashani (temporary), Ahmad Jannati (temporary), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (temporary), Seyed Ahmad Khatami (temporary), Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi (temporary) Urmia: Gholamreza Hassani Yazd: Mohammad Sadoughi Zahedan: Molavi Abdul Hamid (Sunni) Zanjan: Mohammad Taghi Va'ezi This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. List of current Iranian Friday prayers imams

This is a list of current Iranian Friday prayers Imams, sorted according to the city:

• Ardabil: Hassan Ameli
• Bojnourd: Habibollah Mehmannavaz
• Gorgan: Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi
• Isfahan: Yousef Tabatabaee before: jalal-aldin taheri
• Karaj: Kazerooni
• Mahabad: Mamousta Ghader-Sohrabi (Sunni)
• Mashhad: Seyyed Mehdi Ebadi
• Paveh: Mamousta Molla Ghader Ghaderi (Sunni)
• Piranshahr: Mamousta Molla Mostafa Mahmoudi (Sunni)
• Qom: Ebrahim Amini (temporary), Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli (temporary)
• Rafsanjan: Hojjat ol-Eslam Hashemian
• Ray: Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri, Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi (temporary)
• Shiraz: Ayatollah Mohyeddim Haeri Shirazi
• Tabriz: Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari
• Tehran: Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Emami-Kashani (temporary), Ahmad Jannati (temporary), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (temporary), Seyed Ahmad Khatami (temporary), Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi (temporary)
• Urmia: Gholamreza Hassani
• Yazd: Mohammad Sadoughi
• Zahedan: Molavi Abdul Hamid (Sunni)
• Zanjan: Mohammad Taghi Va'ezi
• Bonab (city): Sheikh Mostafa Bagheri Bonabi

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Importance

The Friday prayer leaders (Emam-e Jom'eh) lead the faithful in the performance of the Friday prayer in Iran. (Friday prayer, Salat al-Jumu'ah is a congregational prayer held just after noon in lieu of dhuhr or noon-time prayer done at that time the rest of the week.) According to Asghar Schirazi, the leaders are appointed directly by Iran's Supreme Leader or through the Secretariat of Friday Imams in all the cities. Their "official functions is to supervise religious activity, propagate the doctrine of Valayat-e Faqih and agitation," but in practice they have considerably more power and "stands over the local governors and mayors." They have also been described as part of the Islamic Republic's "parallel layer" of power, their function being in part to watch over local government officials, such as provincial governors.

Changes

Following the 2009 Iranian election protests, Qom Friday prayer leaders - Ayatollahs Abdollah Javadi Amoli, Ebrahim Amini, Reza Ostadi and Hojjatoleslam Nategh Nouri - refused to lead Friday salat for a few weeks. For the important Laylat al-Qadr khutbah during September 2009 Alireza Panahian (like all years) and other clerics who supported the election results did it.

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