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Golpasi -- Pool of Abraham

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This area is a symbolic recreation of this legend: King Nimrod was angry upon learning that Islamic Prophet Abraham was destroying pagan gods, he was to sacrifice Abraham on a funeral pryer. God awoke, turned fire into water and wood to fish. Legend has it that anyone who catches the fish will go blind, therefore the ponds are filled with carps.


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