Al-Kazimiyya Mosque
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Al-Kadhimiyya Mosque is a Shi'a Islamic mosque and shrine located in the Kādhimiya suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. It contains the tombs of the seventh and ninth Twelver Shī'ī Imāms, respectively Mūsā al-Kādhim and his grandson Muhammad al-Jawad. Also buried within the premises of this mosque are the historical scholars Shaykh Mufīd and Shaykh Naṣīr ad-Dīn aṭ-Ṭūsi. Directly adjacent to the mosque are two smaller shrines, belonging to the brothers Sayyid Raḍī and Sayyid Murtadā and Qadi Abu Yusuf al-Ansari.
An illustration of the mosque from 1861.
Al-Kadhimiya Mosque as seen in 1932.
Zarih over the qabr (graves) of al-Kadhim
Holiest sites in Shia Islam
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Both Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims agree on the three holiest sites in Islam being, respectively, the Masjid al-Haram, in Mecca; the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, in Medina; and the Al-Masjid al-Aqsa, in Jerusalem.
The Sacred Mosque in Mecca
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina
Exterior view of Imam Ali Shrine
Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala. Two tall minarets of Al-Abbas Shrine are also seen in the picture.