In a unique workshop at Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, northeast Iran, around 500 thousand prayer turbahs are produced and repaired each year. These turbahs are mostly made from the soil of Karbala.
The 63-year-old hard-line cleric was laid to rest in the holy shrine of Imam Reza, a revered figure in Shia Islam. TV pictures showed large crowds gathered in one of the north-eastern city’s ...