A PARADE will be held on a major Bradford road tomorrow to mark the holy day of Ashura.
The procession will take place in the Great Horton area between 10am and 1.30pm, taking in Great Horton Road, All Saints Road and Laisteridge Lane.
What is Ashura?
It is marked on the tenth day of Muharram - the first month of the Islamic calendar - and is observed by both Sunni and Shia muslims.
It is marked with a voluntary day of fasting, commemorating the day Noah left the Ark and the day Moses was saved from the Egyptians by God.
However, for Shia Muslims, Ashura is a day of mourning the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Holy Prophet, in 680 AD at Karbala in modern-day Iraq.
He was killed by political rivals alongside an army of 72 men at the battle of Karbala.
Hussein’s body was mutilated, leading to his martyrdom.
The day is of great religious significance to members of the Shia community and processions take place across the world.
The death of Hussein is the event which led to the split in Islam between the Shia and the Sunni sects.
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