TEHRAN, Oct. 02 (MNA) – The Ummah English Group will hold elegant mourning ceremony to commemorate Aba Abdullah Al-Hossein (AS) in Tehran in English for the second consecutive year from October 2-12, for 10 days.

A group of foreign nationals located in Tehran along with Iranians who used to live abroad or even pay occasional visits to Iran, will gather together to commemorate martyrdom of Imam Hossain for 10 days.

The ceremony invites English-speaking nationals, students and professors of English to participate in the sacred ceremony to commemorate Imam Hossein (AS).

The English-speaking group ceremony will hold twilight prayers and recitation of Ziyarat Ashura each night and perform diverse programs like miracle plays, account of Hossein (as) passion in Karbala and recital of elegies.

At the end of the program each night, director of South Africa Islamic Center Seyyed Abdullah Hosseini will deliver speech in English.

The event will be held in Eyvan Shams hall and cultural center located in the beginning of Kurdistan highway on Fatemi St., Golha Square, at prayer room of socio-cultural deputy of Tehran Municipality; the session will start with twilight prayers at 18 and will last until about 20:30 each night.

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