Monday July 11, 2022
Palestinians celebrate on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Jerusalem [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Adha, a religious holiday which in Arabic means the “festival of the sacrifice”.
The festival marks the end of Hajj, the five-day pilgrimage Muslims undertake to Islam’s holiest city, Mecca, and surrounding areas of western Saudi Arabia to cleanse the soul of sins and instil a sense of equality and brotherhood.
The belief holds that God stayed his hand, sparing the boy and placing a ram in his place.
The day is marked with the sacrifice of an animal, usually a goat, sheep or cow, and the distribution of the meat among neighbours, family members and the poor.
Children sit on a prayer mat after the prayers on the first day of Eid al-Adha, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. [Olympia De Maismont/AFP]
Young Muslim men prepare to slaughter an ox after Eid al-Adha prayers in Adjame, a district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. [Sia Kambou/AFP]
Muslims perform the morning prayer in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on the Eid el-Adha holiday. [Mahmud Turkia/AFP]
Thai Muslims gather to pray at a mosque during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival in the southern province of Narathiwat. [Madaree Tohlala/AFP]
A Rohingya refugee girl living in Malaysia looks on as people slaughter a cow during the Eid al-Adha festival in Kuala Lumpur. [Mohd Rasfan/AFP]
Muslims offer prayers during Eid al-Adha in Surabaya, east Java, Indonesia. [Juni Kriswanto/AFP]
Muslims gather to perform the morning prayer on the first day Eid al-Adha holiday, in Bab al-Hawa near the border with Turkey, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. [Aaref Watad/AFP]
Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Jama Masjid, in New Delhi, India. [Manish Swarup/AP Photo]
An old Bangladeshi man performs Eid al-Adha prayers at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka. [Monirul Alam/EPA]
Muslim devotees offer Eid al-Adha prayers at Kashmiri Mosque in Kathmandu, Nepal. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
Muslims pray during Eid al-Adha celebrations in Abuja, Nigeria. [Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters]
Muslims are seen after the prayers during the Eid al-Adha celebrations at the newly built Ali Jim'ale Mosque in Mogadishu, Somalia. [Feisal Omar/Reuters]
Afghan people pray on the first day of Eid al-Adha, in Kabul. [Ali Khara/Reuters]
An imam gives a sermon for the Eid al-Adha prayer at Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. [Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters]
Filipino Muslims gather outside the Blue Mosque after the morning prayer on Eid al-Adha, in Taguig City, Metro Manila. [Lisa Marie David/Reuters]
Muslims perform Eid al-Adha prayers on roadside during Eid al-Adha in Karachi, Pakistan. [Shahzaib Akber/EPA]