Wadi Al-Salaam (وادي السلام) in Najaf, Iraq is the World’s Largest Cemetery

Jan 23, 2018 8:47 AM

It covers 1,485.5 acres (601.16 ha; 6.01 km2; 2.32 sq mi) and contains around 5,000,000 bodies :o

What a pointless waste of space. Cemeteries everywhere; not just this one.

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People are dying to get in there!

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It's where the inventor of the cross word puzzle is buried. In the main gate...then 7 down and 15 across!

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Fuck you you clever lil shit

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The gif really makes this.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I thought the middle east was the world's largest cemetery

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This will look amazing, If in irak celebrate " DIA DE LOS MUERTOS"

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From above it looks like the millennium falcon

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Was looking to see if I was the only one who thought this.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A matter of time before that's bombed too

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Don't wanna be around when judgement day comes.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Looks like the saddest place on earth.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's actually bigger than the state of monaco

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Wow. You'd still have to pack an overnight bag to visit grandma.

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Pack a meal too, because, well, you know.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Let's eat grandma

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Let's eat, grandma!*** Punctuation preventing necrophilia

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Working towards a new generation of oil.

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I bet people are DYING to get in there!

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For a while it was a rolling battleground

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And you must be a Dad

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

It's so dry I'm guessing it's a grandpa

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*badum tsshhhh*

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, it is the dead centre of town.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Dad?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Thats a grave understatement

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

ba dum tssss

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Cemeteries and country clubs, the biggest waste of prime real estate.

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Skeleton War base of operations.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The man in #7 got me.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Place looks kinda dead.

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Now that is a necropolis

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Good luck finding the Lich's phylactery in that mess!

8 years ago | Likes 105 Dislikes 0

*Laughs in necromancy*

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Where NOT to be when the zombie apocalypse starts...

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Wait, do zombies come *back* from the dead? That sounds more like a 'revenant' or a 'ghoul', to me... <_<

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

this is why Hogwarts needs some general education classes, because only an ignorant would hide a horcrux in the room of requirement

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

It is literally a room full of other people's discarded shit, how on earth would one think they were the only one smart enough for it

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

and it provides whatever the entrant needs. "i need a horcrux" ba-da-bing ba-da-boom, horcrux.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I keep thinking there have to be reasons why obvious stuff doesn't work. Can't have a horcrux inaccessible to everyone because the creator…

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

…needs to access it for some reason, can't just horcrux a grain of sand on the beach because there are ways of detecting them…

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

otherwise Voldy could have just made one immune to crushing and dropped it in the middle of the ocean. G'luck finding that even w/gillyweed.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I mean, isn't that the same problem we have in real life? Specially in the U.S. Magic can fix that. Lol

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wadi al Salaam = Sea of Peace, right?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Valley not Sea

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thanks.

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It's a Shia holy site.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Not the place to be when the dead rise.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Needs to be bigger

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I put on my robe and necromancer hat.

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No wonder the Middle East is loaded with oil.

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...fossil feul.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

believe it or not, people actually get lost (esp. children) then were found dead of thrust, mostly during summer heat

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

thirst maybe? ...

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Well, it is the Middle East. Either is probable

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

A few trees would brighten it up a bit.

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There are a few already. But only a few.

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I'm thinking something for shade at least. Looks hot as Hell there.....get it ? Cemetary ? Hell ?.....No ?.......I'll let myself out.

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And where would they get water?

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Tears of the mourners.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

yes

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The roots system could harvest the water from decaying corpses. But then you would have to feed the trees with dead people regularly.

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That's in the desert bro...

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All those bodies have to leave the soil rich, right?

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Stick a couple of drawings of trees up. Done

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

so palm?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is not having a sense of humor considered a disability?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

So a few cacti then?

8 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 2

And camels

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+1 for using cacti. I'm a fickle man.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Cacti, cactuses. Either is fine, but Cacti is actually the latin plural and cactuses is the english. Both are correct.

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Trees can grow but muslims believe some trees house Jinn which are basically devils. Trees are usually on the puter perimeter of graveyards.

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Outer*

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As a dude in Iran: I have never heard of such a nonsense. The reason Najaf cemetery is so barren is that it imports deceased Shia 1/3

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2/3 Muslims from all over the Middle East, therefore every inch of the real estate is super expensive. Otherwise, trees are planted in

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

3/3 Muslim cemeteries if the climate allows to do so. Here in northern Iran for examples many cemeteries are dotted with tall trees.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

what kind of trees??

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, how do you find where a loved one is buried?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

My thoughts exactly. How do you find grand'ma ?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

you talk with the npc at the entrace and an arrow will guide you to the right spot

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

with all due respect, cemeteries are a waste of land!

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In this particular area I doubt many valuable resources were wasted.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Yeah honestly this seems like an ideal place to have a cemetery instead of in the middle of a city for that very reason.

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Do you know that people living in Baghdad are not allowed to be buried there? Do you know why...?

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They need to die first.

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Guess before googling it; wrong kinds of Muslims.

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Couldn't find the reason, so I'm guessing its an myth/urban legend; also Baghdad is mostly Shia and that graveyard /1

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is the most desired place to be buried for Shia's so my guess was off. /2

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Dude, its a joke. Living people can't be buried, at least not if they want to remain living.

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Yes, Dead Muslims are buried. Living ones are not.

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Don't they bury some of the live ones under stones?

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