Al Kadhimiya Mosque

Al Kadhimiya Mosque

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caption= Shrine of "Kadhimayn" - "The Two who swallow their anger"
building_name= Al Kadhimiya Mosque
location= flagicon|Iraq Baghdad, Iraq
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religious_affiliation= Twelver Shī‘ah Islām
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The Al Kadhimiya Mosque is a shrine located in the Kadhimayn region of Baghdad in Iraq. It contains the graves of the seventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, Mūsā al-Kādhim and the ninth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, Muhammad at-Taqī.

Also buried within this mosque are the famous historical scholars, Shaykh Mufīd and Shaykh Tūsi.

Directly adjacent to the mosque are two smaller shrines, belonging to the brothers who compiled Nahjul Balagha - Shaykh Radhi and Shaykh Murtadhā.

This mosque was also the destination of the crowd that was killed in the Baghdad bridge stampede.

ee also

*Holiest sites in Islam
*Jannatul Baqee'
*Jannatul Mualla
*Baab Sagheer

External links

* [http://www.al-islam.org/shrines/kadhmayn.htm History of the Shrine at Kadhimayn]


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