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By the 13th century, the belief that the spiritual powers of great Sufi saints were attached to their burial sites was widespread in the Muslim world, and so a shrine was built to commemorate the burial site of
Bahauddin Zakariya.
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in 1848. The shrine's cupola and part of its upper tier were damaged during the siege by
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