Masjed Soleyman
Masjed Soleyman (also
Masjid Soleiman and
Masjid-al-Salaman) (مسجد سلیمان in
Persian) is a town in the southwestern province of
Khuzestan,
Iran. Khuzestan means place of Khuz people who were native to this place before Cyrus the Great. After the advent of
Islam (around
640 AD),
Arabs conquered this part of Iran and started settling there.