Current Status
To save the installation from further destruction, Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran built a dome-framed shelter and it plans to hold an exhibit of astronomical devices used at Maragheh observatory.
The observatory is currently covered with a dome-framed brass structure and is situated two miles west of Maragheh.
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