Ashura 2024 is from July 16, Tuesday to July 17, Wednesday. Muharram holds historical importance for both Sunni and Shia Muslims, as it marks the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE. The battle involved a ...

For Shias, Ashura is a day of mourning which commemorates ... tomb of an unknown person at a cemetery in the central city of Karbala. There are over 2.5 million Muslims in the UK and the mosque ...

The first is the commemoration of Karbala on the holy day of Ashura. On this most solemn day in the Shia calendar, Muslims in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, pour out their grief in an emotional day of ...

An Iranian official says the Arbaeen procession, held every year in Karbala, conveys a message of enlightenment and is a ...