It houses the 2,600-year-old tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel - Dhul Kifl in Arabic - inside the 800-year-old Annukhailah Mosque complex. Inside the chamber housing Ezekiel’s tomb, the worn remains ...

In the center of town and in the middle of a dispute is the tomb of Ezekiel, the biblical prophet who preached to the Jews in captivity under Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C ...

Local Arab tribesmen have tended the site — believed to be the tomb of the Biblical prophet Ezekiel — since Iraqi Jews left the area more than 50 years ago. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

Early reports that Iraq plans to retain the Jewish nature of the Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel are apparently false. Sources in Baghdad say that the government plans to turn it into a mosque and ...

For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims came to Al-Kifl, a small town south of Baghdad, to visit the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel and pray. The distinctive Jewish character of the Al-Kifl shrine ...

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World Iraq cleric slams plan to turn Jewish tomb into mosque Ayatollah Shaykh Ayad al-Rikabi, has denounced the proposed conversion of the ancient tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel into an Islamic site ...

It houses the 2,600-year-old tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel - Dhul Kifl in Arabic - inside the 800-year-old Annukhailah Mosque complex. Inside the chamber housing Ezekiel’s tomb, the worn remains ...

Beside one of the rivers of Babylon, Iraqi archeologists are digging into the past of the Prophet Ezekiel's reputed burial site, even as clerics and government officials draw up plans for its future.

The American-backed Iraqi government has announced plans to restore the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel, in a small town south of Baghdad. It is currently an Islamic shrine, but the government ...