Masjid al-Kāẓimayn
| Al Kādhimiyyah Mosque | |
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| Location |
 Baghdad, Iraq
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| Geographic coordinates | 33°22′47.89″N 44°20′16.64″E / 33.3799694°N 44.3379556°ECoordinates: 33°22′47.89″N 44°20′16.64″E / 33.3799694°N 44.3379556°E |
| Affiliation | Shia Islam |
| Country | Iraq |
Masjid al-Kāẓimiyyah (Arabic: مَـسـجـد الـكَـاظـمـيّـة, Al-Kadhimiyyah Mosque) is a shrine located in the Kādhimayn suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. It contains the tombs of the seventh Twelver Shī‘ī Imām Mūsā al-Kāẓim and the ninth Twelver Shī‘ī Imām Muhammad aṫ-Ṫaqī. Also buried within this mosque are the famous 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 (who compiled Nahjul-Balāghah) and Sayyid Murṫadhā.
Repairs to the crumbling structure of the main courtyard of the mosque and its surrounding rooms were carried out in three phases, spanning a period of four months, before the end of 2007. The project entailed the stripping off of the old crumbling walls throughout the courtyard, the addition of various reinforcements to the walls and ceilings, as well as maintenance on the electrical wirings throughout the mosque. Once the inner structure was completed, the floors and walls were then plated in various kinds of marble. Updates to the cooling units of the mosque began in late 2008, and new water filtration units were installed on November 28, 2008.
Construction on the new ladies entrance to the mosque, that is Bāb al-Fāṭimah (Arabic: بَـاب الـفَـاطِـمَـة), began in late 2008, along with the construction work for new rooms to the mosque meant for serving refreshments to pilgrims.
Among the earliest of repairs done to the mosque, after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, were repairs done to one of the entrance gates of the mosque known as Bāb al-Qiblah (Arabic: بَـاب الـقِـبـلَـة). The gate and the outer wall had to be entirely refurbished because of the severe neglect they had withstood, and took seven months to complete, having started in early September 2006.
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