Hosay 2024 | an Indo-Caribbean Muslin Commemoration in St James Trinidad 🇹🇹| Street Procession

Hosay (originally from Husayn) is a Muslim Indo-Caribbean commemoration that is popularly observed in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. In Trinidad and Tobago, multi-coloured model mausoleums or mosque-shaped model tombs known as tadjah are used to display the symbolic part of this commemoration. They are built and paraded, then ritually taken to the sea on last day of observance, and finally discarded into the water.[2] The word tadjah derived from the Arabic word ta'zieh and signifies different cultural meanings depending on the region, time period, occasion, and religion. In Guyana, and Suriname, the festival is called Taziya or in Caribbean Hindustani tadjah in reference to these floats, arguably the most visible and decorative element of this festival. #Event #Trinidad #Indian #Muslim #Commemoration #History #Culture #SaintJames #PortSpain #CulturalEvent #ReligiousCulture #Drums #Tessa #LiveMusic #StreetPerformance #CostumeDesign #Sculpture #Tradition #CulturalMix #Africans #TrinidadCulture #Travel #BattleOfKabala #QueenRoyalCollege #Prayer #hosay