2024

SYMBOLIC TOMBS OF HUSSEIN AND HASSAN

Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit

A place of pilgrimage more for believers than for tourists. There is indeed a legend that claims that one of the wives of Ali, the prophet's son-in-law, was from this village, which would explain the presence of the symbolic tombs of his sons. A first mosque was built in 1246 to house the two long white tombs of Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein. It has been renovated in recent years, as has the small adjoining mosque.

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