Jamkaran Mosque’s Flag Replaced Ahead of Muharram
TEHRAN (IQNA) – On the eve of the lunar Hijri month of Muharram, the flag of Jamkaran Mosque in Iran was replaced with a black one.
The ceremony in which the black flag was raised, symbolizing mourning for the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS), was attended by various groups of people.
Muharram is the first month in the lunar Hijri calendar.
Every year in Muharram, Shia Muslims around the world commemorate the martyrdom of the third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein (AS), and his companions.
Imam Hussein (AS), a grandson of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him), and his 72 companions were martyred in the Battle of Karbala, in southern Iraq, in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid I.
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