Al-Askari Shrine

Al ‘Askari Shrine, the ‘Askariyya Shrine or the Al-Askari Mosque is a Shi'ite Muslim mosque and mausoleum within the Iraqi metropolis of Samarra 100 twenty 5 km from Baghdad. It is one of the maximum crucial Shia shrines within the world, constructed in 944. The dome emerge as destroyed in a bombing thru extremists in February 2006 and its very last minarets were destroyed in a few other bombing in June 2007, causing giant anger among Shias. The final clock tower became moreover destroyed in July 2007. The dome and minarets had been repaired and the mosque reopened in April 2009.

The 10th and eleventh Sh?'ite Imams, ‘Ali al-Hadi and his son Hasan al-‘Askari, known as al-‘Askariyyayn, are buried inside the shrine. Housed in the mosque are also the tombs of Hakimah Khatun, sister of ‘Ali al-Hadi; and Narjis Khatun, the mom of Mu?ammad al-Mahdi. Adjacent to the mosque is another domed commemorative constructing, the Serdab, built over the cistern wherein the Twelfth Imam, Mu?ammad al-Mahdi, first entered the Minor Occultation or "hidden from the view"—whence the alternative call of the Mahdi, the Hidden Imam.