The World Record of ‘largest Islamic cemetery’ has been achieved by Wadi us-Salaam from Najaf, Iraq.

The cemetery covers an area of 1485.5 acres and contains millions of bodies, making it the largest graveyard on earth. The cemetery extended from the center of the city to the far north-west and forms 13% from the area of the city. In this cemetery process of burial is still continuing to day since more than 1,400 years.