Holy Shrine of al-Sayyida Zaynab (a): Difference between revisions

The holy shrine of Lady Zaynab (s) is one of the places said to be the burial places for Lady Zaynab (s), daughter of Imam Ali (a), located in south of Damascus in Syria. This place is among pilgrimage cites for Shia. The area in which the shrine of Lady Zaynab (s) is located has been a village called Rawiya. Now, this area is called al-Sayyida Zaynab town and known to Iranians as “Zaynabiyya”. The shrine of Lady Zaynab (s) has been several times reconstructed and expanded during history. Since 2012, after the crisis worsened in Syria and Takfiri terrorists emerged in this country, this holy shrine was attacked by mortars and suicide bombings several times and some parts of the shrine were destroyed. Following these attacks, different groups of people went to Syria to defend the shrines of the Ahl al-Bayt (a). These groups known as “Mudafi’an-i Haram” (“defenders of the shrine”) have so far (2016) prevented terrorist groups attack the holy shrine of Lady Zaynab (s).