Samarra after Najaf, Karbala, and al-Kadhimiya is the fourth city for pilgrimage in Iraq. The city is located in Salah al-Din province between Tikrit and Baghdad.The city is famous because of the shrine of two Imams
(a), Imam al-Hadi (a) and Imam al-Hasan al-'Askari (a). The last Imam (Imam Mahdi ) (a) was born in Samarra.