The Chain of Fire ceremony is one of the mourning ceremonies of Bayazeh village in Khur and Biabanak County, Isfahan province, central Iran. The villagers carry out this mourning ceremony before sunrise on the anniversary day of Ashura – the day Imam Hussain and his 72 followers were brutally martyred in the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD). (IRNA photos/Ahmad Riahi Dehkordi)
The ceremony is almost 200 years old and symbolizes the burning of the tents of family and companions of the Imam at noon on the day of Ashura.
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