Dar Al-Imara was built in Kufa from the remains of a palace belonging to the Persian kings in the outskirts of Al-Hira. Dar Al-Imara is considered one of the most important features of Kufa, as there are still in place remains of foundations and walls, while we did not discover all its ruins covered mostly by sands. When Saad bin Abi Waqqas founded Kufa in the year 17 AH / 638 AD and chosed its mosque, he designated the space connected to it from the direction of the qiblah to be a palace for his tenure, and then it was known as Dar Al-Imama or the Qasr Al-Imama. This palace witnessed major historical events during the Rashidi era and subsequent historical eras.
It was the home of Kufa’s governors since its foundation during the caliphate of Imam Ali, who refused to take it as the headquarters of his caliphate, taking the Jameh mosque as the center of his caliphate. The results of the excavations that were carried out at the site showed that Dar Al-Imara consisted of an external wall that included four walls of approximately 170 meters in length and 4 meters in thickness, where each side is supported from the outside by six semi-circular towers, except for the northern side, which is supported by only two towers. The tight and geometric construction of this tower made it protected from external invasion
