Al Abbas Mosque

The Al-Abbas Shrine is the mausoleum of Abbas ibn Ali, situated near the Imam Husayn Shrine, located in Karbala, in the Karbala Governorate of Iraq. Abbas was a son of Ali, the half-brother of both Hasan and Husayn, Husayn's flag-bearer in the Battle of Karbala, and chief of his caravans. Along with the Imam Husayn Shrine, it is a profoundly holy site in Shia Islam. Each year, millions of people around the world observe Ashura during Muharram and later undertake the Arba'in pilgrimage to his shrine, the world's largest annual public gathering. Also known as Abu al-Fadl, Abbas was martyred while attempting to fetch water from the Euphrates river for the thirsty children. Over the centuries, the Euphrates changed course and it now flows around the Abbas Shrine. It is said that the Euphrates has come to Abbas now. Abbas ibn Ali was killed near the Alqamah Canal while attempting, on the instructions of his brother Husayn, to bring water from the Euphrates to the camp at Karbala. Because he fell some distance from both the battlefield and the encampment, and as the fighting had intensified, his body remained where he was killed and was later buried at that very location. Members of the Banu Asad tribe were the first to mark his grave with a prominent tomb so that its location would not be lost. The earliest known visitor to his grave was Ubayd Allah ibn al-Hurr al-Ju'fi, a prominent Shia figure from Kufa. He was followed by the renowned Companion of the Prophet, Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari, who visited the grave on 20 Safar 62 AH, an event traditionally regarded as one of the earliest pilgrimages to Karbala. The Shrine of Abbas is located approximately 378 meters northeast of the Shrine of Imam Husayn, with the two sanctuaries connected by the large plaza known as Bayn al-Haramayn. At the center of the shrine lies the tomb of Abbas, enclosed by an ornate wooden sarcophagus and a silver zarih installed in 1385 AH (1965–1966 CE). Commissioned through the efforts of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim and crafted by master artisans from Isfahan, the zarih incorporates approximately 400,000 mithqals of pure silver and 8,000 mithqals of go

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