Photograph of a taziah car being carried during a Muharram procession. Taziah are miniature mausoleums used in ritual processions held in the month of Muharram. Two taziah can be seen in the picture in the middle of a procession. Brick buildings can be seen in the background. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jammu City, which is also known as the "City of Temples". A mission station occupied by Church of Scotland missionaries was founded here in the late 19th/early 20th century. Jammu is also one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.
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