Hours later, the plane carrying Raisi’s coffin arrived in Mashhad, his hometown, where he was laid to rest at the gold-domed Imam Reza shrine, the holiest Islamic site in Iran, revered by Shiite ...

MASHHAD, May 24 (Bernama-IRNA) -- Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi was laid to rest in his hometown of Mashhad, which hosts the holy shrine of the eighth Shia imam, Imam Reza. The Islamic Republic ...

TEHRAN-The 5th Global Congress of Imam Reza (AS) will be held from May 15 to 16 in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province. Speaking at the press conference for the congress, held in Malek National Museum ...

Hundreds of Arabic- and Azeri-speaking women convened at Iran’s Imam Reza Shrine to commemorate Ashura and reflect on the ...

The event is being held at the Imam Reza International University in Mashhad, northeast Iran, drawing the participation of both Iranian and international researchers, including Valerio De Vito, an ...

In addition, Iran’s Mashhad is shining with the festivities on the birth anniversary of the Eighth Infallible Household of Holy Prophet, Imam Reza (AS). People in Mashhad converged from 15th of ...

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was buried in the holy city of ... Iran’s holiest Islamic site and revered as the resting place of the 9th century Imam Ali al-Reza. Raisi hailed from Mashhad, ...

MASHHAD- The 21st Imam Reza ... Imam Reza’s Culture,” represent a diverse range of scholarly, religious, artistic, and social efforts both within Iran and internationally. Coinciding with the ...

President Ebrahim Raisi's burial at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad caps days of processionals through much of Iran, seeking to bolster the country's theocracy after the crash killing him, the ...

Ali ibn Musa al-Rida, also known as Imam Reza, was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and the eighth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam. The Imam was born on Thursday or Friday, Zul-Qa'dah 11 in the ...