wide range of New Yorkers across the metropolitan area speak some form of Persian, including Bukhori (Uzbekistan), Dari (Afghanistan), Tajik (Tajikistan), and Hazara (Afghanistan). The largest centralized Iranian community in the region may be the Iranian Jewish community in Brooklyn and Great Neck which formed after the 1979 Revolution, where there are several other Jewish languages spoken but standard Persian (based on the Teheran variety) is a lingua franca. Although Iranian Muslims, many of them middle-class professionals who came after 1979, are not concentrated in any particular neighborhood, there are hubs in eastern Queens (where the Imam Al-Khoei is a religious center for some), Manhattan, and elsewhere.