Editing Hussainiya (section)

==Historical Development==
Although mourning ceremonies have been common since the [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/buyids Buyids] era, no definite date can be set for the emergence of the name hussainiya before the last part of eighteenth century. Until that time these ceremonies were held in royal palatial halls, spacious houses, in streets, and open spaces. Apparently, from the second half of the [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/safavids Safavid] era the [[tekkeyyeh]] and khaneqa (also khanakha), buildings that originally served as establishments of the dervishes, were gradually transformed into Hussainiyas, often assuming this name from the latter part of the [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/zand-dynasty Zand] and early [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Qajar-dynasty Qajar] periods onward. 
Starting in the mid-1950s, buildings serving similar religious purposes have been named after other imams and [[Shiʿa|Shi'ite]] saints. For instance, in 1996 there were 1358 hussainiya, 148 tekkiyeh, 34 fatimiyya, 32 [[mahdiyya]], and 57 zainabiyya in the Khorasan province. Scores of such buildings built during the last few decades of the twentieth century in the city of [https://www.britannica.com/place/Mashhad Mashhad] bear such names as sajjadiyya, baqiriyya, sadiqiyya, kazimiyya, radawiyya, jawwadiyya, naqawiyya, faskariyya, mahdiyya, fatimiyya, nargisiyya, and zaynabiyya.

Apparently, the religious influence of the Safavid era (1501-1736) led to the building of the ashurkhanas of the Deccan during the reign of the [[Shiʿa|Shi'ite]] [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Qutb-Shahi-dynastyQutb-shahi] dynasty. Mir Muhammad Mu'min Astarabadi (d. 1625), an eminent religious and political figure, is known to have built several of them in and around the city of Hyderabad, establishing a tradition that later spread to the north and other parts of India. The magnificent imambargah of Asaf ad-Dawlah at Lucknow is perhaps the most impressive of this kind of structures ever built. <ref>Rasool Ja’fariyan (2004). “taʿziya”. Encyclopedia of Islam and Muslim World (ed. [[Richard C. Martin|Richard Martin]]). New York: Macmillan.</ref>

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