Masjedlu (, also

Romanize In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, ...

d as Masjedlū; also known as Masjedī, Masjidi, and Mechety; in ) is a village in

Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District ( is in Minjavan District of Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Asheqlu. History In the wake of White Revolution (early 1960s) many clans of Mohammad Khan ...

Minjavan District Minjavan District () is in Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Asheqlu. History The only noteworthy allusion to the district in official records relates to an appeal by the inhabitants of th ...

Khoda Afarin County Khoda Afarin County () is in East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Khomarlu. History Before the Islamic Revolution, the city of Khomarlu was merely a village that was distinguished from other ...

East Azerbaijan Province East Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Tabriz. The province is located in Azerbaijan (Iran), Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, the Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan, Ardabil pro ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 45, in 14 families. The online edition of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, quoting Iranian Army files, reports a population of 639 people in late 1940s. According to a more recent statistics (2012) the population is 45 people in 14 families. According to P. Oberling, the inhabitants belonged to

Mohammad Khanlu Mohammad Khanlu (Moḥammad-Ḵānlū) ( محمد خانلو) is one of the six major Tribes of Arasbaran. It is a Turkified Kurdish tribe dwelling for the most part in the Arasbaran region, in East Azerbaijan province of Iran. Its summer quart ...

tribe. The affiliation, however, could not be ethnic as people of Masjedlu are followers of

Yarsan Yarsanism (), Ahl-e Haqq (; ), or Kaka'i, is an inherited, syncretic religion founded by Sultan Sahak in the late 14th century in western Iran. The total number of followers of Yarsanism is estimated to be over half a million to one million in ...

religion. Until 1990, Habib Soltani was one of the elites of

religion in

Arasbaran Arasbaran (), also known as Qaradagh (; , ; ), is a large mountainous area stretching from the Qūshā Dāgh massif, south of Ahar, to the Aras River in East Azerbaijan province of Iran. The region is confined to Aras Riv ...

region. His younger son, Asghar Soltani, was a prominent poet.عسگر سلطانی، "آرزو یوللاریم"، انتشارات تکدرخت، تهران ۱۳۹۱، ص. ۱۶.

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Populated places in Khoda Afarin County Kurdish settlements in East Azerbaijan province {{KhodaAfarin-geo-stub