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Karrada
Karrada
District
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Baghdad Governorate
City	Baghdad
Area
• Total	168 km2 (65 sq mi)
Population
• Total	322,043
Language
• Official	Arabic

Karrada (Arabic: كرّادة Karrāda) is an upper-class district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It has a mixed population of Muslims and Christians, as well as foreigners. It is one of the most religiously diverse areas of the city, and is one of the two major districts of the Christian community in Baghdad, along with Dora. Karrada district is divided by the Tigris into western (Karkh) and eastern side (Rusafa) known as Karrada Maryam and Karrada al-Sharqiya respectively.^[1]^[2]

All of the Christians of the district congregate in Inner Karrada, where most of the Churches are located, with congregations of Chaldeans, Assyrians, Melkite Greeks, and Armenian Catholics. It has two sub-districts, being Nazaith and Masbah. Karrada is on the northern part of the peninsula, which was created by a sharp turn in the Tigris river. As a result, the district has many of the waterfront properties, making it a desirable and expensive district. Today it is one of the most affluent and posh neighborhoods of Baghdad. Most of the foreigners, diplomats and expats live in Arsat al-Hindiyah, which is another section of the district.^[3]^[4]

History

According to the history of Baghdad, in 1917, when the British entered, East Karada was a small village with a few palaces for the wealthy people of Baghdad and the rest were houses for farmers, most of which were built of mud.

Al-Karrada Al-Sharqiya is considered one of the old areas of Baghdad, as it was one of the suburbs of Baghdad at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. It was one of the important sources of seasonal agricultural crops of vegetables in addition to other suburbs of Baghdad. It was called (Al-Karrada) because most of its residents were farmers who used (Al-Kurd \ Al-Jard) to irrigate their lands.

Post

the early and mid-twentieth century, including Al-Zawiya Husseiniya, one of the most important and largest Husseiniyas in Iraq, Al-Zawiya Mosque and Al-Hajjah Saada Husseiniya in Al-Jadriya area, Abdul-Rasoul Ali Husseiniya and Al-Mubarak Husseiniya, opposite Abbas Al-Deek Street, Al-Rasoul Al-Aazam Husseiniya near the Nuns Hospital, Al-Bu Shuja Husseiniya in Al-Bu Shuja area near the suspension bridge, and Al-Bu Juma Husseiniya near Rakhita area. After 2003, Karrada became a destination for sheltering all those affected and displaced from different sects, religions and ethnicities in Iraq.^[5]

Karadas are similar and different in some ways, as both are residential areas with different residents. The inner Karada is considered a popular area and its residents are farmers, workers, small traders and professionals, while the outer Karada is full of employees, doctors, industrialists and traders, and it is full of Christians and foreigners. One of the striking observations is that the outer Karada is devoid of any mosque or Husseiniya in all its places except for one mosque that was built in the Nazimiya area in a late period, while the inner Karada is distinguished by the presence of mosques and Husseiniyas from the beginning of its entrance in the Arkhita area until its end, and it has the famous Husseiniyas (Abdul Rasoul Ali, Al Mubarakah, Hajja Saada, Al Zawiya)...^[6]