"Stop playing with people's beliefs, coronavirus is nothing in the Shia shrines," one man is recorded saying at the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom, the epicente of the Iranian outbreak of the novel ...

While the city of Qom is the epicentre of #CoronaVirus in ... There is no need to lick or kiss a shrine, for your prayer to be heard! No city is divinely protected and no shrine can keep you ...

An image above the Hazrat Masumeh Shrine in Qom shows one of Iran's most hallowed places virtually empty as its famed golden dome shimmers in the sunlight. Streets and courtyards around the shrine ...