Karbala

Karbala is a town in central Iraq, located about one hundred km sixty two mi southwest of Baghdad, and some dozen miles east of Lake Milh. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of seven-hundred,000 human beings .The city, satisfactory known as the vicinity of the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE, or the Mosques of Imam Husayn and Abbas is taken into consideration a holy metropolis for Shi'ite Muslims in the equal way as Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. Tens of thousands and thousands of Shi'ite Muslims visit the website two times a 12 months, rivaling Mecca as an area of pilgrimage.

The martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali is commemorated yearly by using tens of millions of Shi'ites. Up to 8 million pilgrims go to the city to have a look at ‘Āshūrā’ the tenth day of the month of Muharram, which marks the anniversary of Husayn's loss of life, but the major event is the Arba in the 40th day after Ashura, wherein as much as 30 million go to the holy graves. Most of the pilgrims travel on foot from all round Iraq and more than 56 international locations.