Masjid al-Kāẓimiyya

Masjid al-Kazimiyya is a Twelver Shia mosque and shrine in the Kadhimiya suburb north of Baghdad. It stands on the Quraysh cemetery laid out with the Round City by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur in 762.

The seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim was buried there in 799 after his death in Abbasid custody, and his grandson the ninth Imam Muhammad al-Jawad followed him in 834. The two tombs gave the quarter its name and made it one of the holiest grounds of Shiism.

The Safavid Shah Ismail I rebuilt and adorned the shrine between 1502 and 1524. After the Ottomans took Baghdad in 1534, Suleiman the Magnificent added further ornament, and in 1611 Sultan Ahmed I granted hereditary custodianship of the shrine to the al-Jamali family.