Bahadur Shah Zafar, last of the Mughal Emperors (see “Destruction of Delhi’) in Eid procession, 1843 (please click)
Today is the first day of Eid al Fitr, (usually called Bayram in Turkey and the Balkans) the three-day feast that marks the end of Ramazan.
Below is a photo of Bayram Namazi in the Blue or Sultan Ahmet mosque in Istanbul (thanks to Aykut for that; I couldn’t tell which mosque was) the morning prayer which is the official beginning of the holiday. (click)
And an impressive video of Eid Namaz at the Jama Masjid in Delhi, which we almost lost. See the Destruction of Delhi series from Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal here, here and here.
In Bosnia (click)
In Afghanistan
In Syria
In Pakistan, where women have their hands henna-ed for the celebration (I’m assuming Indian Muslims too?)
In New York
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