Rawdat al-Shahidain Cemetery


Rawdat al-Shahidain Cemetery is the cemetery in Lebanon, located in southern suburb of Beirut, Dahiyeh.

History

In 1970s, there was a garden belonging to municipality of Beirut, which was densely covered by spruce-fir forest. Nowadays, it turns to a cemetery from various clans and religions, including 2000 martyrs. On 13 April 1975, two brothers named Mustafa and Mahdi Hashim were killed in the Eastern region of Beirut. During some adventures, the garden was chosen as a burial place for them, near the door of garden. By the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, people who are killed were buried in the garden gradually.
Following the explosion in training camp of Amal Movement, 3 killed people were brought to the garden for burying. Musa al-Sadr changed the name of garden to Rawdat al-Shahidain Cemetery when he came to pray for 3 killed people. In recent years Hezbollah has buried killing people in fighting with Israel in the cemetery.

Notable burials

Four bodyguards of the Iran embassy in Beirut, who were killed during the 2013 bombing, were also buried in this cemetery.

In the news

Two days after the Israeli attack on Syria, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, visited Rawdat Al-Shahidain Cemetery in Beirut.
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of the Iranian parliament and Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori-Hamedani, the Shi'a Marja visited the cemetery too.