Yaum e gham

Yaum e gham

Yaum-e Gham, Persian for "Day of Sorrow", is a day commemorated by Shia Muslims, as the day that Jannatul Baqi, the Baqi Cemetery, was destroyed by the Saudi regime in 1925.

See Jannatul Baqi for more details.


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