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People astir the satellite are observing Eid al-Adha, 1 of the astir important Islamic festivals successful the Muslim calendar.
Meaning the "feast of the sacrifice", Eid al-Adha commemorates the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his lad connected God's orders and is marked by peculiar prayers and feasts. This year, it begins connected 28 June.
The festival coincides with the extremity of the Hajj - the yearly Islamic pilgrimage to the beatified metropolis of Mecca.
Below is simply a enactment of images showing radical marking the festival astir the world.
Image source, Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters
Image caption,Worshippers commune astatine the shrine of cleric Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Gilani successful Baghdad, Iraq
Image source, Jam Sta Rosa/AFP
Image caption,Families instrumentality portion successful a greeting supplication astatine the Quirino Grandstand successful Manila, Philippines
Image source, Aamir Qureshi/AFP
Image caption,A trader paints a plan connected a sacrificial camel to pull customers, astatine a livestock marketplace up of the festival connected the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan
Image source, Izzeddin Kasim/Getty Images
Image caption,Displaced radical who person been surviving successful tents owed to the Syrian civilian warfare execute prayers astatine a stadium successful Idlib, Syria
Image source, Emilie Madi/Reuters
Image caption,People enactment gathered aft their archetypal supplication successful beforehand of Al-Amin mosque successful downtown Beirut, Lebanon
Image source, Firas Abdullah/Getty Images
Image caption,People observe the festival astatine the Grand Mosque of Paris, France
Image source, Robin Utrecht/AFP
Image caption,People commune arsenic they be an aboriginal greeting supplication astatine the Mevlana Mosque successful Rotterdam, Netherlands
Image source, Ihsaan Haffejee/Getty Images
Image caption,People commune successful a nationalist parkland successful Johannesburg, South Africa
Image source, Sefa Karacan/Getty Images
Image caption,Those who could not find bare places successful mosques stitchery to commune connected the streets of Moscow, Russia
Image source, Carlos Lujan/Getty Images
Image caption,Dozens commune successful the parkland of El Casino de Embajadores successful Madrid, Spain
Image source, Karim Sahib/AFP
Image caption,People speech wishes aft greeting prayers astatine Dubai's main mosque successful the United Arab Emirates
Image source, Ahmad Gharabli/AFP
Image caption,Worshippers stitchery astatine the al-Aqsa mosque compound successful Jerusalem
Image source, AFP
Image caption,Worshippers execute greeting supplication successful Sudan's eastbound Gedaref region
Image source, Shrooq El-Sayed/Shutterstock
Image caption,Worshippers instrumentality portion successful a greeting supplication successful Cairo, Egypt
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