Saad Ibn Aqeel Shrine

Saad ibn Aqeel Shrine was a Shia mausoleum and husseiniya in Tal Afar in northern Iraq. It was close to the Sheikh Jawad Mosque. Tal Afar is a city located in the Nineveh Governorate of northern Iraq which is inhabited by Iraqi Turkmen people who speak the local Iraqi Turkmen dialect of Turkic.

The shrine had a golden dome over the mausoleum of Saad Ibn Aqeel. One of his ancestors was Aqeel ibn Abi Talib. The grave of Saad Ibn Aqeel was in a zarih. The shrine was completely destroyed in 2014 by ISIS after they captured the city of Tal Afar.

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