The Roza Bal or Rauza Bal or Rozabal (Kashmiri: रोज़ाबल or रौज़ाबल (Devanagari), Urdu: روضة بل) is the name of a shrine located in the Khanyaar quarter in Downtown area of Srinagar in Kashmir. The word rauza means tomb, the word bal means place, often a landing place by a lake, hence "place of the tomb." Locals believe a sage buried there is Yuzasaf (one word), more recently Yuz Asaf (two words; or "Youza Asouph"). and the other man is Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin.
The shrine is currently under Muslim control and visitors are either not allowed or discouraged from visiting by having rocks thrown at them. They claim it is an insult to their faith that some believe it to be the tomb of Jesus, although the shrine existed before Muslim rule in the 14th century. Originally a center of Buddhism, Hinduism and Shaivism for thousands of years before Islam, the shrine was relatively unknown until the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, claimed in 1899 that it is actually the tomb of Jesus. This belief is shared by many Ahmadis today, though the local Sunni caretakers of the shrine believe that "the theory that Jesus is buried anywhere on the face of the earth is blasphemous to Islam.
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