Hussay Race Course

Hussay Race Course On the final day an elaborately decorated Tadjah, representing a mosque, is paraded from Race Course to the Alley Bridge and dumped in the Rio Minho.

Here are some reasons you should visit Vere.

- Vere use to be a parish in Jamaica and its capital was Alley. One of the oldest churches in Jamaica, the St Peter’s Anglican Church, can be found in Alley.
- Vere is home to the Monymusk Sugar Factory, the Salt River Mineral Spring, the Milk River Bath and it is the flood plains of the longest river in Jamaica, the Rio Minho.
- Vere also has its own

famous Flat Bridge. It is not as big or dangerous as the one is St Catherine, but it connects the communities of Longwood, Water Lane, Race Course, Banks, Gimme-Me-Bit and others to Alley. Alley’s Flat Bridge plays a very important role in a very special festival that is held in Vere each year. As our country’s motto says, “Out of Many, One People,” Jamaica’s culture is actually a mixing of several cultures to form one and our society is a mixture of several races. The African and the Chinese came with their celebrations and cultural practices and so did the Indians. Hussay, or Tadjah as some call it, is a Muslim festival that has managed to stay alive in Clarendon. Vere is home to the Indians who settled around the sugar belt, from which they generated their revenues, so it is only natural to find Indian Cultural retentions there. The Hussay festival is an annual event, celebrated in August each year. It is a Caribbean manifestation of the Shia Muslim Remembrance of Muharram. The name Hussay comes from "Husayn" (also spelled "Hussein", the grandson of Muhammad) who was assassinated by Yazid in Karbala. This martyrdom is commemorated in the festival. Small fires are lit in the gutters beside the streets over which the drum skins are heated to tighten the skins of the Tassa drums. Elaborately decorated models of mosques made of paper and tinsel called “Tadjahs” are carried through the streets to the accompaniment of constant drumming. Mock stick fights celebrate the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. The festival lasts three days ending with the throwing of the Tadjahs into the sea or any body of water at sunset on the third day. In Vere, the parade would start in Race Course and end with the Tadjah being thrown into the sea at the mouth of the Rio Minho, but with the collapse of the Knight’s Bridge, this practice was moved more inland to the flat bridge in Alley. The parade now stops on the flat bridge where the Tadjah is dumped in the Rio Minho. The tradition of Hussay is done by several families in Vere, however, only one family has been consistent with it's practice. The Jagasar Family of Race Course not only parades their Hussay, but they actually perform the entire ritual, unlike the other families.

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