Mass wedding ceremony on Eid al-Ghadir in Shia city of al-Zahraa in Syria
October 5, 2015
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A mass wedding ceremony was held in the Shia city of al-Zahraa
A mass wedding ceremony was held in the Shia city of al-Zahraa of Aleppo province in Syria. 110 young men and women from Shia city of Nubbul and 70 from al-Zahraa participated in the ceremony.
Al-Zahraa is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the A’zaz District of Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo. Al-Zahraa has a predominantly Shia Muslim population and along with nearby Nubbul, forms a small Shia-inhabited pocket in a mostly Sunni Muslim area in the Aleppo Governorate. The two Shia cities have been placed under siege for 3 years by the pro-al Qaeda terrorists such as the Free Syrian Army militants.