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Thousands of people in the Turkish city of Istanbul have visited a mosque to see a garment, known as “the Prophet’s holy mantle,” said to have belonged to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).


The citizens of Istanbul visit the mosque, named “Hirka-i Serif,” every year on the occasion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Under the Abbasid dynasty, the holy mantle went to Baghdad, then to Cairo under the Mamluks, and finally, during the reign of Ottoman Sultans, to Istanbul by Sultan Selim in 1595 and preserved along with some other holy relics.

A mosque, the “Hirka-i Serif” in Istanbul, was later built by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamit I in 1853 to keep and protect the mantle and allow people to visit the holy relic.

Traditionally, the garment was visited by the sultan, his family, and the court during a religious ceremony on the fifteenth day of Ramadan each year.
source:http://www.presstv.ir/detail/251989.html
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