Chup Tazia (Bengali: চুপ তাজিয়া; Urdu: چُپ تَعِزْیَہ) or silent tazia is the name given to religious processions held mostly on the 8th of Rabi' al-awwal by Twelver Shia Muslims in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to commemorate the death of Imam Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh of the Twelver Shi'a Imams. The procession is usually regarded as the last procession of the mourning period that begins in the Islamic month of Muharram.
Chup Tazia (Bengali: চুপ তাজিয়া; Urdu: چُپ تَعِزْیَہ) or silent tazia is the name given to religious processions held mostly on the 8th of Rabi' al-awwal by Twelver Shia Muslims in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to commemorate the death of Imam Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh of the Twelver Shi'a Imams. The procession is usually regarded as the last procession of the mourning period that begins in the Islamic month of Muharram.
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