Be the Mayor of Najaf

Najaf, Iraq · 13 people · Heritage City

The Najaf Governorate and Imam Ali Holy Shrine Authority manage one of Shia Islam's holiest cities — home to the Imam Ali Shrine and Wadi-us-Salaam, the world's largest cemetery at over 1,485 acres — coordinating crowd management for 20+ million annual pilgrims including the Arbaeen gathering, operating Najaf International Airport for religious tourism, managing burial logistics for the global Shia community, and preserving the historic courtyard architecture of the Old City.

The seat for Najaf on the Board of Mayors is open. Seat #1 is yours to take.

The city

Landmark: Imam Ali Holy Shrine & Wadi-us-Salaam Cemetery.

• The Imam Ali Holy Shrine Authority manages Wadi-us-Salaam — the world's largest cemetery, covering over 1,485 acres with an estimated 5–6 million graves — where devout Shia Muslims from across the world request burial alongside Imam Ali, requiring the authority to administer burial space allocation, funerary procession logistics for multiple daily interments, underground tomb maintenance, and preservation of centuries old family mausolea within an actively growing active cemetery.
• The Najaf Governorate coordinates Arbaeen pilgrim flow management — the 40-day pilgrimage that brings an estimated 20 million people to Najaf, making it the world's largest annual human gathering — deploying temporary bridge infrastructure, kilometre long pedestrian corridor barriers, water and food distribution posts every 500 metres, networked medical stations, and a volunteer coordination system operating across a city whose normal population of 1.3 million is temporarily multiplied many times over.

How a term works

Take office and every day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is scored on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, inside a real budget, and every mayor's work adds to Najaf's own record on the Board of Mayors. You are not alone in office: message and chat with other mayors, form a council with friends, trade with nearby cities and send aid. Cities rise together: there is no losing city.

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