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This is a list of ziyarat locations from all around the world. Ziyarat locations are often shrines dedicated to various Muslim saints and Awliya but can also be places that are associated with them, like zawiyas .
Quba Pire Ewra ("Pir of the people") Temple in Sinjar, Iraq Şexsê Batê Babira, Iraq Shrine of Shekhse Bate in Babera village, Iraq Quba Sheikh Mand Sinjar, Iraq Shrine in the southern part of Sinjar, Iraq. Dedicated to Sheikh Mand. Shrine of Nishingaha Peroz: Ain Sifni, Iraq: Ezidi shrine of Nishingaha Peroz near Ain Sifni, Duhok Governorate ...
Between the holy shrines, Karbala, Iraq The historian Ibn Kuluwayh mentioned that those who buried Husayn ibn 'Alī constructed a special, durable identifying marker for the gravesite. Larger, more significant construction on the gravesite began during the rule of al-Saffah (reign: 750–754 AD), the first caliph of the long-lasting Abbasid ...
Kadhimiya (north of Baghdad) is regarded as a holy city in Shia Islam. Musa al-Kazim and his grandson, the ninth Shia Imam, Muhammad at-Taqi are both buried there, and their tombs are contained in the Al Kadhimiya Mosque. Shia go on an annual pilgrimage to this shrine in the month of Rajab. Mosque of Kufa in Iraq
Imam Ali's shrine is among the last of the Shi'ite shrines in Iraq to retains its nearly full set of original antique tiles. [13] Around the shrine on its North, East, and Southern sides is a large courtyard surrounded by pointed arch arcades, while the shrine is linked on the West to the Al-Ra's Mosque. The courtyard arcades are two floors in ...
Pages in category "Shrines in Iraq" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Al-Abbas Shrine;
Al-Atabat Al-Aliyat (Arabic: العتبات العالیات [1] [2] lit. sublime thresholds), [3] [4] which is also known as Al-Atabat Al-Muqaddasa (literally: holy doorsteps) are the shrines of six Shia Imams which are in four cities of Iraq, namely Najaf, Karbala, Kadhimiya and Samarra; [5] [6] [7] and actually the whole of these Imams' shrines (graves) are called Atabat Aliyat. [8]
During the Iraqi Revolt, the British troops entered the Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery, and the shrine was desecrated on the 17th of October, in 1917. [1] A year later, in the years 1918 until 1919, the shrine was repaired and given extensive renovations. [5] [4] With the assistance of Iranian companies, the dome of the shrine received new tilework. [4]