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Shiite Muslims commemorate Ashoura | Africanews

Shiite Muslims commemorate Ashoura | Africanews

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Published on 2024-07-16 12:46:37

Muslims around the world marked Tuesday Ashura, a day of commemoration in Islam.

Thousands of Shiite Muslims traveled to the Iraqi city of Karbala to pray inside the holy shrine of Imam Husayn.

The grandson of Prophet Mohamed is entombed in a gold-domed shrine there.

Hussein was defeated and killed in October 630 AD.

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