AL-AMEED JOURNAL

Abstract

Religious factors play an important role in increasing the urban
population in particular regions where religious symbols and
monuments grant ritual and worshipping acts and contribute to
embrace all kind of people worldwide , since we know that most
of the cities that have grown and evolved for religious reasons
as it is known in Mecca , Medina , Jerusalem ,Najaf , Karbala and
Al-Kadhimiya other cities, as these places have become points of
attraction or otherwise affect in attracting large numbers of the
population, and thus the religious factor has become one of the
essential factors helping to urbanize and mushroom these cities .
Therefore, the need to construction and expansion of services for
the residents of these cities, including recreational services, and
tourism with a religious significance, which is religious tourism, is
on the full swing to help people in visiting some places of blessing
or pilgrimage or to perform a religious duty or to know the religious
heritage of the state and other religious rituals.