Send six stone pillar cargoes from Mahallat city to Najaf
Responsible for the sanctuary headquarters of Mahalat City: Submitted columns include Sereston, Ring Column and Column Bars built in the city's stone processing workshop, built using white marble cut stone extracted from mines in Kerman and Azarshahr.
According to Iran's International Stone Exhibition, the head of Mahalat's sanctuary, said: "Six stone cargoes were sent to Najaf aristocracy this week for reconstruction."
Mohammad Najafi added: Each of these cargoes comprises ten to twelve full columns and a total of seventy columns this week were loaded from stone workshops in Mahallat city and sent to Najaf Ashraf for the reconstruction of Hazrat Zahra .
He said the cargoes were more than the commitment of the Mahallat city to build six hundred and four stone pillars that were sent to rebuild Hazrat Zahra's court in Najaf Ashraf.
The head of Mahalat's sanctuary reconstruction headquarters said two hundred stone columns have been sent to continue the second phase of Hazrat Zahra's courtyard reconstruction.
Najafi added that the third phase of Prophet Zahra's aqueduct reconstruction project requires one hundred and fifty-eight columns, of which seventy columns have already been constructed and shipped and the rest are under construction.
He said: The sent columns include Sereston, Ring Pillar and Pillar Bar made in the stone processing workshop of the city, which was made using white marble stone quarries extracted from mines in Kerman and Azarshahr.
The head of the Mahalat city's sanctuary rebuilding staff said: "For the first time in the Middle East, specialized equipment has been deployed in a variety of shapes in stone-throwing complex workshops in the neighborhoods of the last three years."
Najafi said: One of the good craftsmen in the district has undertaken the process of preparing, processing and installing stone in the courtyard of Hazrat Zahra (N) in Najaf Ashraf, which is now in addition to its commitment to build and deliver stone columns.
The city of Mahallat has been ranked number one in the central province in recent years in helping rebuild sanctuaries as measured by the central headquarters. Mahalat counties with two hundred and fifty processing workshops and seventy stone ore mines are considered to be the country's stone production site and 60% of the country's construction stones are mined in this line. The city has been named the country's center of production of stone travertine with an annual production of 2.5m tonnes of travertine stone and accounts for 12% of the world's travertine production.
* IRNA
