Iran's biggest street Ta'zieh hosted 40,000 spectators

Ta’zieh is one of the oldest ritual and religious performing arts of Iranians that the flourishing of this art goes back to the

Naser al-Din Shah’s monarch.

After the era of Naser al-Din Shah, this art has experienced ups and downs and limitations, but its religious status has been preserved, from Takyeh Dowlat to the performing  of Ta'zieh in different parts of the country, especially during the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.

 

Ta'zieh drama was inscribed in 2010 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the efforts of well-known artists in the field of dramatic arts.

 

Currently, the city of Shush in Khuzestan province is considered to be the hub of the country's largest outdoor T’azieh, which hosts more than 40,000 people who come from far and near cities to attend this ceremony every year.

According to its founders, Ta'zieh was started in the year 1906 in the city of Har Shush by Sheikh Ghafel and adapting the similar performances in the cities of Najaf and Hillah, and now nearly 240 years have passed since its establishment.

This ritual-traditional show has been registered as a spiritual cultural heritage in 2017, and its founders are trying to register this event in the world.

 

Shush Field Ta’zieh is performed every year on the days of Tasu’a and Ashura from 4:30 AM to 1:00 PM in both Arabic and Persian languages.

The events of this Ta'zieh begin with the arrival of Imam Hussain (a.s.) and his companions to Karbala on the second day of Muharram and end with the scenes of the Ashura era and the captivity of the family (Ahl al-Bayt)of the third Shiite Imam.