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(Sacrifice place) or '''Sacrifice Pit''' (Arabic:{{iarabic|المنحر }},Persian:{{iarabic|قتلگاه}})is the name of a place in [[Karbala]] where, according to sources, [[Imam al-Husayn (a)]] was beheaded by [[Shimr]] or [[Sinan]]. This place is today near the [[Shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a)]], visited by [[Shia]] and lovers of the [[Ahl al-Bayt (a)]].

Today, there is a basement outside the Shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a) which is considered the place where Imam (a) was martyred. In that basement, there is a marble stone, 50 cm above the ground like a grave. Usually, the basement is closed and sometimes it is opened for visiting certain people.

On the third floor from the ground at the same level with Darih, toward the end of the South-west Rawaq, on the left, there is a door opening to a narrow corridor, where there is a 9 round meter room. Its ground is a bit lower and its walls are painted with some mirror works. They say that Imam al-Husayn (a) was martyred there. Another door connects this room to a lower place, where it is said that Imam al-Husayn (a) fell from the horse. Now, the Sacrifice Pit is surrounded with steel windows and visitors stay behind these windows and mourn there.

The Rawda (mourning lament) of the Sacrifice Pit is one of the Rawdas of the event of Karbala which is made on the Day of ‘Ashura by elegists and Maddahs.

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