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The Al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, badly damaged by a bombing in 2006, holds the tombs of the tenth and eleventh Shia imams (religious leaders) and is the third-holiest site in Shia Islam after Najaf and Karbala. In which Iranian holy city, home to the Fatima Masumeh Shrine, do many Shia Muslims also travel on pilgrimage?
The Al-Askari Shrine in Samarra is one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, holding the tombs of the tenth and eleventh Shia imams. The Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom is another important Shia holy site, holding the tomb of Fatimah bint Musa, sister of the eighth Shia imam Ali al-Ridha.