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- With its majestic mosques, gardens, and ruins of royal palaces extending 5.6 miles by 21.1 miles along the Tigris River, Samarra is one of four Islamic holy cities in Iraq.
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Though Samarra is famous for its Shi'i holy sites, including the tombs of several Shi'i Imams, the town was traditionally and until very recently, dominated by Sunni Arabs. Tensions arose between Sunnis and the Shi'a during the Iraq War.
The Holy City of Samarra. Brief Facts. • Samarra is the resting place of Imam Ali al-Hadi and Imam Hasan al-Askari (A) • It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, about 120 km north of Baghdad, Iraq. Its population in 2002 was 200,000.
Samarra, town, Salah al-Din muhafazah (governorate), central Iraq. From 836 to 892 it was the capital of the Abbasid empire. It is a pilgrimage centre for Shi’i Muslims and the site of the shrine to Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the 11th and 12th imams.
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The quotation above comes from a poem by Ali ibn al-Jahm celebrating one of the many palaces built in the city of Samarra, the capital of the Abbasid Empire from 836 to 892 C.E. [1] The Abbasid caliphs spared no expense to build a palatial city of grand buildings and sprawling residential complexes, defined by their monumental scale and ...
It is the only surviving Islamic capital that retains its original plan, architecture and arts, such as mosaics and carvings. Samarra has the best preserved plan of an ancient large city, being abandoned relatively early and so avoiding the constant rebuilding of longer lasting cities.
A short text describing the historical significance of the Holy City of Samarrah, including photographs of the Holy Shrines of Imams al-Hadi (A) and al-Askari (before and after it's destruction in February 2006).
May 8, 2018 · Two apostolic imams, Ali al-Hadi and his son Hasan al-Askari, were buried in Samarra; therefore it is a holy city of Shi ʿ ism, one of four in Iraq. The imams' shrine is visited by Shi ʿ a from all over the Islamic world.
