Abdullah Shah Ghazi Mausoleum
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The Tomb of Abdullah Shah Ghazi
, is located at perched on a hilltop overlooking Clifton Beach, Karachi
, Pakistan
. The tomb is built on a very high platform with the grave being downstairs. The tomb has a tall and square chamber and a green-and-white striped dome, decorated with Sindhi tilework flags and bunting/ Abdullah Shah Ghazi's tomb attracts a steady stream of devotees who shuffle forward to caress the silver railing around the burial place and drape it with garlands of flowers.
Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi
was a ninth-century sufi who claimed direct descent from the Prophet and is thought of by his followers as something like the patron saint of Karachi. People, most of them Muslims, come here to pay homage to him from across the country.
On 7 October 2010, dual suicide bomb blasts at the shrine killed 10 and injured 50.http://tribune.com.pk/story/59617/twin-blasts-in-karachi Salafi
/Wahabi extremist sympathizers were suspected, given their opposition to Sufiism and opposition to the veneration of mausoleums.
Abdullah Shah Ghazi
Abdullah Shah Ghazi is considered to be patron saint of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is widely revered in Pakistan. His tomb is also a revered Sindhi shrine especially for the Bawarij Sindhi Muslims and the Samma tribe....
, is located at perched on a hilltop overlooking Clifton Beach, Karachi
Clifton Beach, Karachi
Clifton Beach or Seaview is a beach in Karachi, Pakistan located on the Arabian Sea. It is one of the neighborhoods of Clifton, Saddar Town. It was the world's most popular silver-sand beach and health resort during 20th century but in 2003 it was affected by an oil spill...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. The tomb is built on a very high platform with the grave being downstairs. The tomb has a tall and square chamber and a green-and-white striped dome, decorated with Sindhi tilework flags and bunting/ Abdullah Shah Ghazi's tomb attracts a steady stream of devotees who shuffle forward to caress the silver railing around the burial place and drape it with garlands of flowers.
Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi
Abdullah Shah Ghazi
Abdullah Shah Ghazi is considered to be patron saint of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is widely revered in Pakistan. His tomb is also a revered Sindhi shrine especially for the Bawarij Sindhi Muslims and the Samma tribe....
was a ninth-century sufi who claimed direct descent from the Prophet and is thought of by his followers as something like the patron saint of Karachi. People, most of them Muslims, come here to pay homage to him from across the country.
On 7 October 2010, dual suicide bomb blasts at the shrine killed 10 and injured 50.http://tribune.com.pk/story/59617/twin-blasts-in-karachi Salafi
Salafi
A Salafi come from Sunni Islam is a follower of an Islamic movement, Salafiyyah, that is supposed to take the Salaf who lived during the patristic period of early Islam as model examples...
/Wahabi extremist sympathizers were suspected, given their opposition to Sufiism and opposition to the veneration of mausoleums.