Sang Shekanan (stonemasons) cave in the south of Jahrom, Fars province, has been dubbed the largest hand-made cave in the world, but many people in Iran and even Fars have not yet heard of it, and it has few visitors.

The distance from the cave to Jahrom city is three kilometers. Researches suggest that its antiquity backs to hundreds of years that some stonemasons used those stones for their livelihood.

They have created a beautiful attraction by their stone breaker hatchet which has become one of the largest handwork caves in the world and it is the most beautiful and spectacular scenery heritage. It is five hectares in size.

In fact, this place was a quarry for extracting building stone until 100 years ago, and now it has been registered as the largest hand-carved cave under number 10117 on the country's National Heritage List. 

From a geological point of view, the different layers of rock mass in this place are different, and a layer about five meters thick with low resistance is surrounded between two other layers; because it is possible to cut and extract this layer with simple tools, stonemasons have cut and pulled out large and small pieces of rock from among these layers, and to prevent the destruction of the cave, after every 10 meters of advancement, the stonemasons have left a large column to maintain the stability of the rock mass of the cave ceiling. 

As this excavation and the creation of columns continued over decades, a cave with 100 stone columns was formed, which is a spectacular and amazing human work. 
This cave has 12 entrances and its length is 200 meters and its width varies from 60 to 130 meters which covers totally about 20,000 square meters and average height of three meters.

 When the stone breakers picked up the stones, after a few meters ahead, they had caused some pillars because of prevention of destroying the cave. So, this would have caused the cave to be reduplicating beautiful. There are 100 stony pillars which due to stones’ quality they fall into two categories.

The first category includes pillars which has numerous gaps and crevices, because of absence of a good quality of the stones, they did not separate; the second category includes pillars without gap and crevice, so its stone have quality and they were not picked up due to prevention of falling the roof.

The white lime stones and plasticity of this cave were used for the adornment on the doors and on the splendid, important buildings.

Some natural factors such as floods and earthquakes have also been effective in destroying part of the cave over the years; but what now calls everyone to watch is a beautiful cave with 100 carved columns that amazes the viewer.

According to the head of the Jahrom Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department, this cave has a good location and is easily accessible for tourists.

Ali Lotfipour said this cave is located within the city of Jahrom and is less than 15 minutes away from the city center. The path to the cave is completely asphalted and suitable, and access to it is easy, he added

Lotfipour said the cave’s proximity to the accommodational infrastructures such as eco-lodges and hotels has created appropriate conditions for tourists to visit.

He added that the city's hotels have a capacity of about 200 tourists, and there is also a capacity of nearly 200 people in eco-lodges and other places.

Lotfipour continued that the cave has been illuminated, but due to a shortage of manpower in the Cultural Heritage Department, conditions have not yet been met to assign full-time guard to this iconic heritage of Jahrom.

He pointed out that the measure to register Sang Shekanan cave as the world's largest hand-carved cave has a significant impact on attracting domestic and foreign tourists.

Jahrom is located 186 kilometers southeast of Shiraz.