Watercourse Al-Salam: World’s Biggest Graveyard Where 6 Million Bodies Are Covered

The blessed city of Najaf in Iraq is home to the world’s biggest memorial park, where in excess of 6,000,000 bodies have been covered. As per UNESCO, the Aqueduct Al-Salam (“Valley of Harmony” in English) graveyard is the last resting place many prophets, researchers and royals. The graveyard stretches out from the focal point of the city to the far north-west and records for 13% of the region of the city, growing further consistently. As indicated by a 2021 Reuters report, Channel Al-Salam is growing at twofold its typical rate.
From a higher place, the graveyard can be confused with a city, with the graves there seeming to be confined structures. It is visited by Muslims from different areas of the planet.

Watercourse Al-Salaam is spread across 917 hectares. (AFP Photograph)
Channel Al-Salaam is spread across 917 hectares. (AFP Photograph)

The date of entombment in the graveyard back to old times before the medieval times, UNESCO further said. Among those covered here are the rulers of Al-Hira and it’s chiefs from Al-Sassani period, and kings, sovereigns of the territory of Hamdania, Fatimia, Al-Buwayhyia, Saffawayia, Qajar and Jalairiyah.

The graveyard has a few sorts of entombment, which were lower graves and high graves (towers).

For what reason does this place have all inclusive worth?
It is a significant resting place for Shia Muslims from around the world. (AFP Photograph)
It is a significant resting place for Shia Muslims from around the world. (AFP Photograph)

One reason for this is the way that Watercourse Al-Salam has the graves of a few celebrities. Counting Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the child in-law of Prophet Mohammad.

Further, the burial ground remains as an observer to a one of a kind illustration of a social custom. It likewise addresses a customary strategy for land use.

Al-Jazeera said this is a significant resting place for Shia Muslims from around the world. Consistently, 50,000 individuals are covered here.

News office AFP said in a report that digging a grave here costs $100 and the headstones cost $170 to $200.

The graves here are worked with prepared blocks and mortar. (AFP)
The graves here are worked with prepared blocks and mortar. (AFP)

In an accommodation to UNESCO, Iraq assessed its region at 917 hectares – what could be compared to in excess of 1,700 football fields.

There are no guides to direct guests through the confounding maze, which is likewise recorded as the world’s biggest cemetery by the Guinness Book of World Records.