Sefid Chah
Sefid Chah
Persian: سفيدچاه | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Sefid Chah Cemetery | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value. | |
| Coordinates: Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | Mazandaran |
| County | Behshahr |
| District | Yaneh Sar |
| Rural District | Shohada |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 137 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Sefid Chah (Persian: سفيدچاه, Mazanderani: اسپه چاه)[a] is a village in, and the capital of, Shohada Rural District, Yaneh Sar District, Behshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran.[4] The literal meaning of Sefid Chah is The White Well The reason for naming the village is the white soil that is seen in the cemetery due to the presence of lime.
Demographics
[edit | edit source]Population
[edit | edit source]At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 99 in 26 households.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 351 people in 55 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 137 people in 47 households.[2]
Cemetery
[edit | edit source]The old cemetery of Sefid Chah, was registered as a national monument of Iran on 8 March 2003. The cemetery dates back to the Timurid period and is considered one of the first Muslim cemeteries in Iran.
According to research and studies conducted by various soil research institutes, the soil of this cemetery contains large amounts of lime, and bodies in this type of soil decompose over a longer period of time than other types of cemetery soil. It is believed by the people of this village that if they are buried in this cemetery, their bodies will remain intact or will not suffer any damage.
The gender of the people buried there is indicated in a special way. If there is a shape of a double-headed shoulder on the stone installed on the grave, the grave belongs to a man, and if there is a shape of a single-headed shoulder on the gravestone, the person buried in that place is a woman.[7]
See also
[edit | edit source]Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').
Notes
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Sefid Chah can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "48185" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
| Capital | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Footnotes | 𝄪 These villages were merged to form the city of Khalil Shahr ‡ Became a neighborhood in Behshahr city | ||||||||||||||||
 | This Behshahr County location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |