[1] It is highly associated with the Yarsan (Ehli Heq) religion in Kurdish areas and in the Lorestān provinces of Iran.

[1] It is one of the few musical instruments used in Ehli Heq rituals, and practitioners venerate the tembûr as a sacred object.

[2] Another popular percussion instrument used together with the tembur is the Kurdish daf, but that's not sacred in Yarsan spirituality and Jam praying ceremony.

[1] The resonator is pear-shaped and made of either a single piece or multiple carvels of mulberry wood.

[1] The neck is made of walnut wood and has 13 or 14 frets or, arranged in a semi-tempered chromatic scale (one of the only middle eastern musical instruments not microtonal).