UPI POY 2008 - News and Features
UPI POY 2008 - News and Features
An Iranian Shiite Muslim woman covered in mud, prays during a traditional religious ceremony in Khorramabad, a city in Lorestan province, 499 km (310 miles) west of Tehran, Iran on January 19, 2008. Ashura is the peak of ten days of mourning during the Islamic month of Muharram, the first month of the lunar calendar, when Shiite Muslims mourn the slaughter of Imam Hussein 1366 years ago in what is now Karbala in southern Iraq. Mourners mix rose water with the riddled clay in a 12-square meter area. They gently beat their shoulders with chains while their heads and shoulders have been covered by this clay. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
OTR:
POY20081231657
Date:
December 20, 2008
Object Name:
UPI POY 2008 - News and Features
Keywords:
NEWS
Category:
American News
Supplemental Codes:
Feature Photo, Religion




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