Hamadan

Ecbatana / Achmetha

Home of the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai - a living pilgrimage shrine under Iranian state heritage registration - one of the oldest Jewish holy sites in the Diaspora.

Modern locality anchor

Hamadan

Iran · City · 34.8°N 48.5°E

This anchor orients the sourced locality record. It is not a reconstructed historical position or border; the single map below provides geographic context.

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Where is Hamadan?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Hamadan?

500 BCE–1900

Ancient community (Ecbatana tradition - presented as tradition)

1900–1979

Modern community

1979–present

Post-1979 small community

Today

Small community; pilgrimage shrine.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Hamadan sound like?

Judeo-PersianHebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

Judeo-Persian is a language with its own grammar, literature, and history — not “broken” anything, and not a dialect of Hebrew.

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Hamadan

Small community; pilgrimage shrine.

Tomb of Esther and Mordechai
tomb shrine · public landmark
State-registered heritage; pilgrimage shrine.

SOURCES & REVIEW

Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (place entry)
Macmillan Reference USA · 2007
Iran - Virtual Jewish History Tour
Jewish Virtual Library · open source

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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