Ramadan begins on Friday, and observers became sunrise to sunset during the Holy Moon. Here’s how Muslims mark this period, which includes special prayers, blessings and fasting.
Ramadan begins on February 27 with Eid al-Fitr Holiday marking at the end of the Holy Month on March 30
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The baby is seen next to the Al Mabrur Mosque Dome because Officers of Observatory check astronomical tools for the calculation so that on Friday in Surabai, Indonesia, in Surabai, Indonesia. (Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images)
Many Muslims watched Ramadan around the world, which starts this year on Friday. It is a holy month when they refrain from food, drinks and other pleasures from sunrise to sunset.
Ramadan concludes with Eid al-Attic (Festival Festival) on March 30.
Here’s how worshipers mark this holy period, which includes religious reflection, family gatherings and good deeds.
The fan is looking through the theodolite to spot a new crescent month on Friday to determine the beginning of Ramadan, in Putrajaja, Malaysia, Friday. (Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters)
The worker cleans the chandelier inside the mosque in preparation for Ramadan in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday. (Fareed Khan/Associated Press)
The worker is cleaning the Sunehri mosque in preparation for Ramadan in Peshac in Pakistan on Friday. (Muhammad Sajjad/Associated Press)
Muslims pray as they visited their cousin’s grave on Friday as part of a local tradition ahead of Ramadan in Jakarta in Indonesia. (Willy Kurniawan/Reuters)
On the eve of Ramadan, people buy traditional lamps in Shorja, the largest and oldest market in Central Baghdad, Thursday. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)
The Palestinian Loay Gheith decorates ceramic panels on the eve of Ramadan at its ceramic factory on Thursday in the occupied city of the West Coast of Hebron. (Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images)
Decorative lights are included in central London in England to celebrate the start of Ramadan on Wednesday. (Temilade Adelai/Reuters)
Palestinians walk under the decorative lights applied between the ruins of buildings, in the middle of the trunk between Israel and Hamas, on Thursday at Khan Yunis, southern Gazi. (Ramadan Abed/Reuters)
The worshipers are prayed during the evening prayer service to mark the first Ramadan on Friday in the Grand Mosque of Truth in Jakarti. (Achmad Ibrahim/Associated Press)
