Bareilly Sharif Dargah is a

Dargah A Sufi shrine or dargah ( ''dargâh'' or ''dargah'', Turkish: ''dergâh'', Hindustani: ''dargāh'' दरगाह درگاہ, ''dôrgah'') is a shrine or tomb built over the grave of a revered religious figure, often a Sufi saint or dervi ...

(shrine) or mausoleum of

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Ahmad Raza Khan Baraylawi (14 June 1856–28 October 1921), known reverentially as A'la Hazrat, (Grand Master), was an Islamic scholar, mufti, polymath, gnostic, poet from (undivided) India, he is considered as the founder of the Barelvi move ...

, a 19th-century islamic scholar who founded the

Barelvi movement The Barelvi movement, also known as Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah (People of the Prophet's Way and the Community) is a Sunni revivalist movement that generally adheres to the Hanafi school, Hanafi and Shafi'i school, Shafi'i schools of jurisprudenc ...

. It is located in

Bareilly district The Bareilly district () belongs to the state Uttar Pradesh in States and territories of India, northern India. Its capital is Bareilly city and it is divided in six administrative division or tehsils: Aonla, Uttar Pradesh, Aonla, Baheri, Bareil ...

in the state of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. The Dome of the Dargah was designed by Shah Mehmood Jaan Qadri with the use of Matchsticks.

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In 2014 during the observation of the death anniversary of

Ahmed Raza Khan Ahmad Raza Khan Baraylawi (14 June 1856–28 October 1921), known reverentially as A'la Hazrat, (Grand Master), was an Islamic scholar, mufti, polymath, gnostic, poet from (undivided) India, he is considered as the founder of the Barelvi move ...

( Urs-e-Razvi) at the Dargah-e-Ala Hazrat,

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

clerics condemned the terrorism practiced by the

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and the ideology of the Wahhabi sect. Although the Dargah was once the main site for the Urs-e-Razavi, the official

Urs Urs (from ''‘Urs'') or Urus (literal meaning wedding), is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the saint's dargah (shrine or tomb). In most Sufi orders such as Naqshbandiyyah, Suhrawardiyya, Chishtiyya, Qadiriyya, etc. ...

is also now observed in a dozen countries. This is due to the large crowds and the arrival of many scholars.

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{{Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Dargahs in Uttar Pradesh Memorials to Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Dargahs in Bareilly district 1921 establishments in India

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