seminaries
- plural of seminary.
Example Sentences
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Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city located in the north-east of the country, and studied at seminaries in the city before moving to Qom, the centre of Iran's Shia clerical establishment.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Najaf is the main centre of Shia religious seminaries, and is also home to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's top Shia religious authority.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Most of them reside and run seminaries in the holy cities of Qom in Iran and Najaf in Iraq.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
Alireza Arafi, a cleric in his late 60s who leads Iran’s seminaries, has stayed above politics and could appeal to both hard-liners and more moderate forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
For a vast length of time the schools attached to the monasteries were not only the best, but almost the sole seminaries where an education of the higher class could be obtained.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
