Taking their positions side by side, in multiple rows, a few hundred Shia and Sunni Muslims offered their Eid al-Adha prayers together after which they met with local Hindu, Sikh and Christians. "In ...

Every year on the tenth day of the holy month of Muharram, the first on the Islamic lunar calendar, Shia Muslims show a distinctive face of Islam, one that sees spirituality in passion and rituals ...

Members of the Shia Muslim community offered Namaz at KSI Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad and at Eidgah in Sambhal on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr. Some worshippers were seen wearing black bands as a mark of ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Sambhal, March 21 (IANS) Members of the Shia community in the Sambhal district on Saturday offered Eid prayers while wearing black armbands as a mark of mourning and protest over the ...

Modern Islam is divided into two main branches: the Sunni and the Shia. These sects share the core beliefs of Islam, but the schism between the two was cemented by the politics of the early Muslim ...