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Hussainia in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Arabic | حسينية ( ḥusayniyya)
مأتم ( ma'tam) |
| Azerbaijani | Hüseyniyyə |
| Hindi | इमामबाड़ा ( imāmbāṛā)
आशुरख़ाना ( āshurkhānā) |
| Bengali language | ইমামবাড়া ( imambaṛa) |
| Persian language | حسینیه ( ḥoseyniye)
تکیه ( takyeh)
تکیه خانہ ( takyax ānā) |
| Urdu | ( imāmbāṛā)
( imāmbārgāh)
( āshurxānā)
( huseyniya) |
A Husayniyya () is a building designed specifically for gatherings of Shia Muslim for spiritual practice, religious education and commemoration ceremonies, especially the Mourning of Muharram.
Terminology
A husayniyya is different from a
mosque. The name comes from Husayn ibn Ali, the third of the Twelve Imams and the grandson of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad. Husayn was martyred at the Battle of Karbala on 10 October 680 CE on the orders of
Yazid I The Shia commemorate his
every year on
Ashura, the 10th day of
Muharram.
There are also other ceremonies which are held during the year in husayniyyas, including religious commemorations unrelated to Ashura.
[ Hussainiahs and Takkiahs mashreghnews.ir] and may not necessarily hold jumu'ah (Friday congregational prayer).
In South Asia, a husayniyya can also be referred to as an imambara, imambargah, or ashurkhana. It is also often called a takyeh in Iran and takyakhana in Afghanistan (see takya). In Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in other Gulf States
it is called a ma'tam ().
History
From the time of the
Safavid dynasty was ruling
Iran, when Shia tended to hold the religious and mourning ceremonies, not only the passageways or the roofed places were used for the religious communities, even to make the hoseyniyehs and also
became commonplace.
Any hoseyniyeh had some booths (or rooms) and arcades, both in large and small sizes. Also in many alleys and streets, on the days near Ashoura, the religious people blackened the walls and the roofs and illuminated them, by the colorful lights... From the age of
Zand dynasty, many bigger and vaster takyeh(s) was made just to hold ta'zieh, where there was a stage by the height of one meter from the floor, to show the different senses of ta'zieh.
[The Iranian social history, (تاریخ اجتماعی ایران) written in Persian, V 5, P 340] Expense of the husayniyya is provided by Charitable donations and endowments.
Usage
Hussainiya was used during
Muharram,
Safar, and
Ramadan for mourning,
Rawda Khwani, Sineh Zani (a Customary form of mourning ceremony which shows their grief with chest-beating).
Also, Hussainiya is a place for accommodations of passengers
and pilgrims and feeding the poor.
Since husayniyya serves as a focal point for Shi’i gathering, it also plays a very significant role in consolidation of religious identity specially for Shi’i population in diaspora.
[ Vernon James Schubel (1996). “Karbala as Sacred Space among North American Shi'a” in Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, edited by Barbara Metcalf, 186-203. Berkeley: University of California Press.]
Notable husayniyyas
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Hosseinieh Azam Zanjan Mosque, in Zanjan, Iran
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Azakhana Syed Dost Ali, Mohallah Katkoi, Amroha, built in 1766/1767
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Hussaini Dalan, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Prithimpasha Nawab Bari Imambara, in Kulaura, Bangladesh
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Bara Imambara, in Lucknow, India
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Chhota Imambara, in Lucknow, India
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Hooghly Imambara, in Hooghly (W.B.), India
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Nizamat Imambara, in Murshidabad, India
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Badshahi Ashurkhana, in Hyderabad, India
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Dar uz Zehra, Alipur, Karnataka, India.
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Hosseiniyeh Ershad, in Tehran, Iran
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Hussaini Imambara Asim Raza Abdi, in 100/46, Colonel Ganj Kanpur,
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Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab, in Lucknow, India
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Imambargah Mir Vilayat Husain, in Karari Allahabad, India
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Azakhana Wazeer-un-Nisa, located in Amroha, India. The Azakhana was built in 1802 (1226 Hijri) with one Mosque.
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Imambargah Haveli Sa'daat, one of the oldest Imambargahs in Gujranwala, Pakistan. It was built by the Naqvi Sadat family, who migrated from Fatehgarh Churian, Punjab, India.
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Imambargah Bait Aal e Imran, in Kotla Arab Ali Khan, Gujrat city, Pakistan. The site was donated by Choudhary Ghulam Hassan, a sunni by birth, and his wife in 1979.
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Imam Bargah mosque, Afghanistan, targeted in the 2021 Kandahar bombing
See also
