Wadi Us Salaam: The World’s Largest Cemetery

When we are alive we fight to outrank each other. We belittle others and try to show our superiority over them through various means but what happens in the end? We become the same pale subtle skin whose time is ticking to enter the grave and what happens when you die? Are you buried based on your wealth? Your caste? Does God treat you any special because you outnumbered a few? No, nothing, it is always good for good and bad for bad. 

Regardless of what you have done you always end up six feet underground among all those who had lived their lives to the fullest or most null.

If covid has taught us anything it is to live peacefully and happily since you don’t know when your days are coming for you. The picture of bodies lined up in Italy without a place of burial can come to your mind and how people did not get to bury their loved ones and not even a few inches of the place was available for someone dead. 

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Not one country has expected a virus to create such a massacre with one or two acres of a burial ground in each city no one was anticipating the pile-up. 

But here is one strange place in the world that can accommodate a hundred thousand dead bodies. Yes, you heard us right a hundred thousand.

The cemetery is located on approximately 1485 acres in Najaf, a city of Iraq. With over 50 lakh bodies buried so far, the cemetery looks like a metropolis to onlookers. This cemetery is called ‘Wadi Us Salaam’. It is also known as the ‘Valley of Peace’. Whereat least two hundred bodies are buried daily. This cemetery is very special for Shia Muslims.

Wadi Us Salaam is a very ancient cemetery. Burial in this cemetery has been going on for the last 1400 years. The number of bodies buried here during the 18th-century war between Iran and Iraq rose sharply. During the war with Iran, 250 bodies were buried daily.

During the 19th century Gulf War, the Iraqi army demolished many tombs due to terrorists hiding in the cemetery. Where hundreds of thousands of bodies were buried during this war. 

Wadi Us Salaam is an example that the cemetery also has stories and they have a history but the rising number of graves can endanger people living in the city since it is not one or two bodies that come in every day but hundreds of them.

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