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This picture shows a mosque in Baghdad called Kahimain. The mosque was built in the early sixteenth century. It is a major Shiite mosque because it contains the remains of two important leaders of their sects religion. Mosques are an important part of the Islam religion. Five times a day a holy man calls the faithful to the mosque from one of the towers.