With commencement of Muharram, the first month of Islamic calendar, Shia Muslims in Kashmir have erected banners across roads and streets in entire valley with huge portraits of religious figures dotting the landscape to mourn the martyrs of Karbala. The first ten days of the month witness processions and taking out of Alam Sharief. “The Ashura processions used to be taken out from two different places in Srinagar. One from Shamaswari Khanqah-e-Moula to Imambara Zadibal led by Ansari’s and the other from Zadibal to Imambara Hassanbad, led by Agas of…
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