List of Tehran's Friday Prayer Imams

Ali Khamenei, current supreme leader of Iran, as Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam, in 1980

This article lists Tehran's Friday Prayer Imams that were appointed after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. It contains both permanent and temporary Tehran's Friday Prayer Imams. The current Imam is Supreme Leader of Iran Sayyid Ali Khamenei, who also appoints temporary Imams. Ahmad Khatami, Kazem Seddiqi, Ali Movahedi-Kermani, Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard and Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari are current temporary Imams.^[1]

Imams

N°	Imam	Date	Appointed by	Notes
1	Sayyed Abolqasem Emam Jomeh	Unknown – 1908	Unknown	Dismissed from the position by the Constitutionalists[2]
2	Mohammad Emamzadeh	1908–1947	Unknown	Died in office[2]
3	Hassan Emami	1947–1979	Mohammad Reza Shah	Left office due to Iranian Revolution[2]

Post-1979

N°	Imam	Date	Appointed by	Notes
1	Mahmoud Taleghani	27 July 1979 – 9 September 1979[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Died in office
2	Hussein-Ali Montazeri	12 September 1979 – 14 January 1980[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Resigned
3	Ali Khamenei	14 January 1980 – present[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Nominated by Hussein Ali Montazeri[3][4]

Temporary Imams

N°	Imam	Date	Appointed by	Notes
1	Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili	13 February 1981 – 24 December 1993[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Imamate unofficially ended
2	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	3 July 1981 – 17 July 2009[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Imamate unofficially ended
3	Mohammed Emami-Kashani	30 October 1981 – 2 March 2024[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Died in office
4	Mohammad Mahdi Rabbani Amlashi	11 December 1981 – ?[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	He was Imam for 3 times
5	Mohammad Yazdi	1982 – late 1990s[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	Resigned
6	Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani	11 March 1983 – 19 June 2009[3]	Ruhollah Khomeini	He was Imam for 100 times
7	Ahmad Jannati	3 April 1992 – 11 March 2018[3]	Ali Khamenei	Resigned
8	Hassan Taheri Khorramabadi	?	Ali Khamenei	He was Imam for 8 times[3]
9	Ahmad Khatami	18 December 2005 – present[3]	Ali Khamenei
10	Kazem Seddiqi	1 August 2009 – present[3]	Ali Khamenei
11	Ali Movahedi-Kermani	2 December 2012 – present[3]	Ali Khamenei
12	Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard	14 February 2018 – present[3]	Ali Khamenei
13	Mohammad-Javad Haj Ali Akbari	31 December 2018 – present	Ali Khamenei

See also

• Friday prayer in Shia Islam
• List of provincial representatives appointed by Supreme Leader of Iran

References

1. چه کسانی به نیابت از رهبری نماز جمعه می‌خوانند؟/مروری بر سوابق ۵ امام جمعه موقت تهران (in Persian), Khabar Online, retrieved 24 March 2015
2. Mir, Cyrus (December 13, 2011) [December 15, 1998]. "EMĀMĪ, Sayyed ḤASAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 4. Vol. VIII. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. p. 393. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
3. ائمه جمعه تهران؛ از حضوری ۳ هفته‌ای تا ۴۲۴ حضور (in Persian), Fars News Agency, retrieved 24 March 2015
4. از حبس تا حصر؛ متن کامل گفت‌وگو با آیت‌الله منتظری (in Persian), BBC Persian, 18 December 2014, retrieved 24 March 2015, وقتی تهران بودم٬ ایشان من را امام جمعه قرار دادند. بعد که مجلس خبرگان قانون اساسی تمام شد رفتم خدمت ایشان و گفتم آقا من طلبه قم هستم و اصلا با من سازگار نیست که بخواهم در تهران باشم و در سیاست و اینها باشم. می خواهم بروم قم و مشغول طلبگی باشم. ایشان فرمودند امام جمعه تهران تو هستی و هرکسی را که می خواهی معین کن. که من آنجا باز آیت الله خامنه ای را معین کردم. به ایشان گفتم رکن نماز جمعه خطبه است و ایشان خوب خطبه می خواند، ایشان را قرار بدهیم. و بعد آمدم قم. بالاخره من نوعا در متن قضایا نبودم.