Description of the Holy Shrine


	The Holy Shrine of Imam Abbas PBUH is located in the center of the old city of Karbala, vertically ...					Architecture of the holy shrines is considered part of global human cultural heritage, and one of....
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Entrance of the Holy Shrine

	The Prophet gate (Kebla) more	Imam Ali gate more	Euphrates gate (alkami) more

	Imam Ali Alhadi gate more	Imam Muhammad Jawad gate more	Imam Musa Ben Jafer gate more

	Imam Muntazar (Messiah) gate more	Imam Hussein gate more	Imam Hassan gate more

the courtyard of the holy shrine

Southern Side

Eastern Side

Western Side

Northern Side

This side is located in front of the keblah that is the main interface to holy shrine. ...

It is limiting the east of the holy shrine, its length facing the nave is 89 m, and ...

This side overlooks on the western part of the holy shrine and includes 3 Doors ...

It limits the north side of the holy shrine .Its length front to the holy shrine is ...


	The Center of the Holy Shrine In the centre of the Holy Shrine there is a roofed, almost rectangular building includes the Mausoleum of Abu al Fadl al Abbas (peace be upon him)... more				The Terrace Is an umbrella of concrete rising in the middle with a level higher than the sides forming a wing-like form of the upper part of them. It is paced on pillars of ... more


	The Doors of the Corridors of the Holy Shrine The number of the gates leading to the corridors surrounding the Holy Shrine are �eight, after they were five. They are developed after the fall of the tyrant in 04/09/2003 to accommodate increasing number of the visitors, which creates in the holy shrine crowded specially in Fridays visitation and the visitations of millions that with increasing numbers every year after the disappearance of the Tyrant away from all the followers of Ahlul Bayt (peace be upon them) in Iraq and its openness to the outside world which led to an easy way to the faithful outside Iraq to come in ...

first door
It is the gold door which is in the middle of the Gold Iwan which leads to the center of the terrace... more

second door
A silver embossed door of �3 meters height �and 2.73 meters width. It is adjacent to the gold ... more

third door
A wooden carved door with two shutters, its height is 3 Meters and width is 2.78 meters. It is... more

forth door
This door is overlooking on the east side of the nave, and is leading to the eastern corridor of the nave... more

fifth door
Its height is 3m and width is 2.30m made of silver, engraved with the most beautiful ... more

sixth door
this door leads to the north lobby of the Holy Shrine and opposite to the gate of Imam Muhammad ... more

seventh door
leads to the west lobby of the Holy Shrine with a height of �3 meters �and width of 1.86 meters ... more

eighth door
Leads to the west lobby of the Holy Shrine with a height of 3 meters and a width of 1.87 meters ... more

the Corridors of Imam Abbas Holy Shrine

The holy shrine is surrounding �by four galleries, each is representing a wide corridor used to cross the visitors ,where the prayers and worshipers are standing, because ...

Southern corridor
Which is located in the keblah, its area is 150 m 2 and it has three ports to it...

Northern corridor
This lobby was separated from the east and west lobbies...

Eastern corridor
Its area is 150 m 2 almost as well two new opening lead it...

Western corridor
This lobby is equal in the space with above-mentioned lobby...




Imam Abbas Holy Shrine more	Arranging the movement of the Visitors more	The Cage of the Holy Shrine more

Wooden Tomb more	Cloth more	The New Curtain of the Holy Mausoleum more

The Dome more	The Minarets more	Holy Basement more


		Holy Site of right Hand The place of the right palm is located in the north-east of the holy shrine in the region of overlap between Bab al-Khan and Bab Baghdad ...				Holy Site of left Hand This site is located primarily in the south-east of al Abbas holy shrine in Bab al-Khan, as the place is the current alternative place to the old one because of the ...
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