Pir Bakran#Attractions

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Pir Bakran ({{langx|fa|پیربکران}}){{efn|Also romanized as Pīr Bakrān; also known as Pīr Bāqerān; formerly Linjan (لنجان){{GEOnet3|6013138}}}} is a city in, and the capital of, Pir Bakran District{{efn|Formerly Garkan-e Shomali District{{cite report|title=Changing the name of Garkan-e Shomali District under Falavarjan County of Isfahan province to Pir Bakran District|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/119634|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206165304/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/119634|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|archive-date=6 February 2024|date=c. 2024|orig-date=Approved 8 February 1378|id=Proposal 1.4.42.9386; Notification 65582/20384H|access-date=6 February 2024}}}} of Falavarjan County, Isfahan province, Iran.{{cite report|title=Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of Isfahan province, centered in the city of Isfahan|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/113034|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204010546/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/113034|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Board|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|archive-date=4 February 2024|date=c. 2024|orig-date=Approved 21 June 1369|id=Proposal 3233.1.5.53; Letter 93808-907; Notification 82838/T131K|access-date=4 February 2024}} It also serves as the administrative center for Garkan-e Shomali Rural District.{{cite report|title=Creation and formation of five rural districts including villages, farms and places in a part of Falavarjan County under Isfahan province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Research Center of the System of Laws of the Islamic Council of the Farabi Library of Mobile Users|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110240|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427024420/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110240|archive-date=27 April 2013|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|access-date=6 February 2024|date=7 February 1392|orig-date=Approved 4 October 1366|id=Proposal 53.1.11802; Notification 117648/T913}} The city is southwest by road from Isfahan.

Demographics

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At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 10,851 in 2,934 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Isfahan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/10.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920083455/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/10.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}} The following census in 2011 counted 12,192 people in 3,665 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Isfahan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Esfahan.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117221845/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Esfahan.xls|archive-date=17 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}} The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 13,469 people in 4,209 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Isfahan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_10.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019041954/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_10.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=19 October 2020}}

Attractions

It contains the mausoleum of Muhammad ibn Bakran, a Sufi saint who taught theology outside the existing structure at the site.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} The iwan was constructed to serve as his classroom, but was uncompleted at the time of his death in 1303. The structure was later modified to function as his mausoleum.

The ancient cemetery of the Jews of Esfahan is situated close to this complex. It contains tombs inscribed from the 2nd century AD. The major mausoleum contains the tomb attributed to the biblical person Serah bat Asher. For Jews this is a place of pilgrimage.