Main Characters
- Aga Djan - head of the Bazaar and head of the family, works in carpet business
- Alsaberi - the imam of the Senedjan Mosque
- Fagri Sadat - wife of Aga Djan
- Shahbal - son of the blind muezzin, a spiritual son of Aga Djan
- Sediq - Alsaberi's eldest daughter
- Galgal -husband of Sediq, also imam, a close ally of Ayatollah Khomeini, and the judge of Allah later in the book
- Ahmad - son of Alsaberi, later imam in the Senedjan Mosque
- Zinat -wife of Alsaberi, later spiritual Islamic leader of the women
- The grandmas - women that helped in the house and lived there all their lives
- Nosrat - Aga Djan's little brother who left the house for city life
- Djawad - son of Aga Djan
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