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Tomb of Joshua (Shia Islam), Ramot Naftali – Shiite shrine of Yusha's (Joshua) tomb. The village which includes the shrine was Shiite and destroyed in 1948. The shrine is abandoned. Nabi Bulus, Beit Shemesh — the shrine of Paul the Apostle in the Muslim tradition (unlike the Christian one which is in Rome). The shrine is abandoned.
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]
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;
Shrine(s) 2 (one shrine for Salman al-Farsi, the other shrine for the companions) The Mosque of Salman al-Farsi ( Arabic : مسجد سلمان الفارسي) is a historic mosque located in the city of Salman Pak , Al-Mada'in district, Iraq .
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]
The shrine of Princess Shahrbanu, just south of Tehran, is open only to women. Shahrbanu was the daughter of Yazdegerd III , the last Sassanid ruler of Persia. She married Imam Hussein ibn Ali and was mother of the fourth Shia imam, Ali ibn al-Husayn , so has come to symbolize the early and close connection between Shiism and Iran.
The Mausoleum of Imam Hasan of Basra (Arabic: مرقد الإمام الحسن البصري) is a historic shrine in Basra commemorating the renowned ulama Hasan of Basra. [1] Hasan of Basra was a Sunni Islamic ulama, nicknamed as Abi Sayeed, born two years before the end of the era of the second Caliph Umar. The mausoleum is located in the ...