Najafabad (Persian: نجف‌آباد‎‎, also Romanized as Najafābād) is a city in and the capital of Najafabad County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 206,114, in 54,529 families. It is located west of Isfahan and is increasingly becoming a part of Isfahan Metropolitan area. Najafabad is the birthplace of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Mostafa Moeen, Moein (singer), and Sardar Ahmad Kazemi. It is also the hometown of Iranian-American poet Dr. Mahnaz Badihian One of the attractions of Najafabad is the "Arg-e Sheykh Bahaie" that has recently been repaired.