Shii News – Ashura in Edinburgh – F Alibhai

Twelver Shia in Edinburgh: marking Muharram, mourning Husayn

Fayaz S. Alibhai Founded by the Wali-Al-Asir Trust in August 1989, the imambargah in Edinburgh’s Leith district describes itself simply as a ‘Shiʿa Community Centre’ and an ‘Imambargah following the Shiʿa Ithna Asheri (Twelver) school of thought, based in Edinburgh’. It is indistinguishable from the other buildings around it on Great Junction Street.

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