AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): A ceremony was held at the Samen Al-Aeme Imam Reza (AS) Quran Academy in Sydney, Australia, on Friday to celebrate the birth anniversary of Hazrat Zeynab (SA).
Mostafa Ashrafi, head of the academy, said Shia Muslim and devotees of AHl-ul-Bayt (AS) attended the ceremony.
It began with the recitation of the Duaa Nudbah (Nudbah Supplication), which takes place every Friday at the center, he noted.
The ceremony also included Quran recitation, a religious speech, recitation of eulogies and religious songs, he added.
Saeed Goli and Farshad Aalaei recited eulogies and Rahimi Lotfi delivered a speech, according to Ashrafi.
The program concluded with a cultural competition whose winners were awarded pilgrimage packages to the holy city of Mashhad, Iran, he went on to say.
Hazrat Zeynab (SA), who was the daughter of Imam Ali (AS) and Hazrat Zahra (SA), was born in the holy city of Medina on the 5th day of the lunar Hijri month of Jamadi-ul-Awwal in the 5th year of Hijrah (627 AD).
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