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28 September 2022

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Manufacture journey of shrine's grid of Lady Zaynab (+Photos)

In October of the year (2020), Iraqi hands began to manufacture the shrine's grid of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her), according to artistic and engineering designs inspired by the Islamic artistic heritage, carried out by the staff of the Department of manufacturing grids and doors of shrines of the Al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine.

In October of the year (2020), Iraqi hands began to manufacture the shrine's grid of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her), according to artistic and engineering designs inspired by the Islamic artistic heritage, carried out by the staff of the Department of manufacturing grids and doors of shrines of the Al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine.

The beginnings of the Masterpiece

The department started on (October 13/ 2020) by laying the milestones of the holy grid, after having previously completed the manufacture of its crown and the upper roof and installing it on it, according to the head of the Department, Mr. Nadhem al-Ghurrabi, saying, "The first steps of this work included preparing designs for the grid, which are inspired by the existing grid with wonderful artistic touches. The carpenters of the factory have also undertaken the wooden structure for the grid, which is the starting point and initiation of the rest of the metal and wooden parts, where the best types of wood (Burmese) were chosen, using a special fixation method that matches the weights that will be fixed on it.".

Wooden structure

“The wooden structure of the grid, which takes the form of a parallelepiped, consists of four main pillars and ten intermediate columns adjacent to the knotworks (Dahna), and four lower wooden bridges connecting the pillars between them from the bottom, forming a link with steel and coated with metal; pure stainless steel of (5 mm) thickness to give it durability and longer life, in addition to four wooden upper bridges that will connect the corner columns between them from the top and form a link to them."

"Most of the manufactured metal parts consisted of hand-made inscriptions and ornaments, and were made of gold and silver metals, in addition to stainless steel and copper, and these metals are used according to each piece and the method of its manufacture and shaping," he adds.

He explains that "the work requires extreme precision to extract metals, and all of them are characterized by their durability and increased thickness compared to the current grid, in addition to the inscriptions and decorations contained in each piece, they were distinguished by the accuracy and aesthetic of their inscriptions, which combined and harmonized the decorations found in the shrine's grid of Aba al-Fadl al-Abbas, and the shrine's grid of his sister Lady Zaynab (peace be upon them)".

The poetic inscription

One of the distinctive manufacturing parts in the holy grid is the poetic inscription,poetic craved frieze, which is located on top of the knotworks, and it is one of two inscription bands as the grid contains a previously completed Qur’anic band, and a poetic one, separated by a decorative part, explaining thatThe poetic band consists of (28) pieces that surround the grid on its four sides, with two pieces above each knotwork, on which are written the rows of the poem of the poet Ali al-Saffar al-Karbala'i, by the master of Arabic calligraphy, Dr. Rawdhan Bahia, in the thuluth script, the poem is entitled (She is Zainab). Each piece of the poetic carved frieze is 5mm thick, 16cm high and 30cm long. The calligraphy will be colored with pure gold and its base is green enamel.

Government documentation

Before preparing for the delivery of the holy grid to the holy shrine of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her), a delegation from the House of books and documents at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and antiquities visited the manufacturing site to document the stages of completion, according to the director of the National Center for documents Huda Ahmed Nassif, who added, "We did not expect to see this level of masterpieces completed, although we believed that the work is preliminary," indicating that "what we have seen is very wonderful and integrated".

On Friday, July 1, 2022, The Lady Zaynab’s (p) holy shrine, represented by the responsible for its administration, Mr. Mohsen Harb, signed the document of receipt of the her holy shrine’s grid, after its completion by the staff of the Department of manufacturing the grids and doors of the holy shrines at the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine.

Mr. Harb stated, "with God's help, the document of receipt of the shrine’s grid of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her) was signed today at the shrine of her brother Aba al-Fadl al-Abbas (peace be upon him), after receiving the grid with all its details and parts, and God willing, it will be a wonderful masterpiece presented by Aba al-Fadl al-Abbas (peace be upon him) to his sister; Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her).”

The achievement

And on the July 5, 2022, the staff of the Department of Manufacturing shrine grids and doors of the al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine have completed all the work of packing parts and pieces of the shrine’s grid of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her), after completing its dismantling in the presence of the administrator of the shrine of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her); Mr. Mohsen Harb, and the supervisor of the department Kadhem Obada.

the package works came after dismantling the metal pieces from the wooden structure, then cleaning and polishing them using special materials according to the type of each metal, to be then placed in a plastic envelope and placed in boxes according to the size and type of each piece, after they were numbered and tightly closed those boxes, and these works also included wooden pieces, whether for the structure or the interior decorations of the grid.

A technical team will accompany these boxes to supervise their placement in the warehouses allocated to them, to be followed by another team to form an integrated working group to take over the dismantling of the old grid of the shrine of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her), and start installing the new grid in its place. Noting that the holy grid's financement was donated by one of the believers and was made entirely inside Iraq.

Celebrating the achievement

The general secretariat of the Al-Abbas's(p) holy shrine has extended an invitation to all lovers and followers of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) to attend the ceremony celebrating the completion of the new grid of the shrine of Lady Zaynab (peace be upon her), which was completed by the staff and servants of the Al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine before being transferred to her holy shrine in Syria.

The ceremony will be held in the courtyard overlooking the Qibla gate of the shrine of Aba al-Fadl al-Abbas (peace be upon him), after being transferred from the shrines's gates and grids factory at Five O'clock in the evening on Tuesday, the 30th of the month of Safar for the year 1444 AH, September 27, 2022.

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