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- Code Number:
- RCTV07P14_18
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Ashura Day in Khomeinishahr, Iran
- Amongst Muslim shiites, Ashura commemrates the detah of Husayn, son of Ali and grandson of the Prophet Mohammad. It is a period of expressions of remorse and of major pilgrimages to Kerbala, where the tragedy took place in 680 AD. Most people dress in black and passion plays, called ta'ziyah, take place in public (Iran and Pakistan have the most elaborate plays over 3 days with era costumes and hundreds of lay actors).
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Faith, Religion, Religious, Belief System, devotional, devotion, Holy, Divinity, Sacred Place, worship, Holiness, Spiritual, Inside, Interior, Indoors, Lies, guilt, shame, Building, Structure
- Image by:
- Samuel Wooten
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- Code Number:
- RCTV07P14_18
- Title:
-
Ashura Day in Khomeinishahr, Iran
- Amongst Muslim shiites, Ashura commemrates the detah of Husayn, son of Ali and grandson of the Prophet Mohammad. It is a period of expressions of remorse and of major pilgrimages to Kerbala, where the tragedy took place in 680 AD. Most people dress in black and passion plays, called ta'ziyah, take place in public (Iran and Pakistan have the most elaborate plays over 3 days with era costumes and hundreds of lay actors).
- Keywords:
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Faith, Religion, Religious, Belief System, devotional, devotion, Holy, Divinity, Sacred Place, worship, Holiness, Spiritual, Inside, Interior, Indoors, Lies, guilt, shame, Building, Structure
- Image by:
- Samuel Wooten
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