Masouleh, an Iranian village

Masouleh is approximately 60 km southwest of Rasht and 32 km west of Fuman. The village is 1 050 meters above sea level in the Alborz (or Elburz) mountain range, near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea.

The village itself has a difference in elevation of 100 meters.

The first village of Masouleh was established around 1006 AD, 6 km northwest of the current village, and it is called Old-Masouleh (Kohneh Masouleh in Persian).

People moved from Old-Masouleh to the current village because of pestilence and attacks from neighbouring villages. Some old families  have written records of their family trees which are as old as one hundred years.