Al-Baqi Cemetery

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Al-Baqi Cemetery (Arabic: مَقْبَرَة ٱلْبَقِيع, Maqbarat al-Baqīʿ), also known as Jannat al-Baqi or Baqi al-Gharqad, is the oldest and first Islamic cemetery, located southeast of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia.

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