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Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of Muslims, is being celebrated today (May 3, 2022) across the country. This is the first Eid celebration without Covid-19 pandemic related restrictions.Eid jamaat (congregations) were held under public and private initiatives across the country, including in Dhaka.
The country’s main Eid jamaat in Dhaka was held at the National Eidgah around 8:30 am. Separate arrangements were made for women at the National Eidgah.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, no Eid jamaat were held at the National Eidgah, adjacent to the High Court, in the last two years.
A four-tier security arrangement has been put in place in and around the National Eidgah today. Judges, Cabinet members and diplomats representing Muslim countries offered Eid prayers at the National Eidgah.
President M Abdul Hamid offered Eid prayers, along with his family members and some officials, at Durbar Hall of Bangabhaban in Dhaka, reports BSS.
The Eid jamaat was held at 9:30 am. Pesh Imam of Bangabhaban Jame Mosque Mufti Maulana Saiful Kabir conducted the Eid prayers, BSS added.
Besides, Eid jamaat started at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 7 am. Five Eid jamaat were scheduled to be held there till 11:00 am in a span of one hour.
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Holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated in the country Tuesday as the Shawwal moon was not sighted in Bangladesh this evening.The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee this evening after Maghrib prayers.
Mohammad Faridul Haque Khan, state minister for religious affairs, made the announcement after presiding over the National Moon Sighting Committee meeting at the Baitul Mukarram office of the Islamic Foundation in Dhaka.
As the moon was not sighted anywhere in the sky of Bangladesh and Sunday was the Ramadan 29, Monday will be the Ramadan 30 and the last day of the holy month, he said.
Eid-ul-Fitr is marked on the first day of Shawwal – the month that comes after Ramadan in the Hijri calendar.
The main jamaat of this Eid-ul-Fitr will be held at the National Eidgah on the High Court premises in Dhaka at 8:30am.
If the congregation cannot be held due to inclement weather or any other unavoidable reason, the main jamaat will be held at 9am at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque.
Islamic Foundation on Saturday said there will be five jamaats at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr.
The first Eid jamaat will be held at 7:00am while the next four will be held at 8:00am, 9:00am, 10:00am, and 10:45am respectively.
Eid-ul-Fitr jamaats will also be held at mosques and Eidgahs all over the country.
The largest Eid-ul-Fitr jamaat (congregation) of the country will be held on the historic Sholakia Eidgah Maidan with participation of over thousands of devotees from home and abroad amid security measures.
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]]>He said this while talking to media after monitoring security arrangements at the Eidgah Maidan today.
The DMP commissioner said that Eid prayers will be offered at 1,468 places, including Eidgah and mosques, across the capital and more than one congregation will be held at some mosques. “We will have security arrangements at Eidgah and every mosque where jamaat will be held,” he added.
The DMP commissioner said the entire area of Eidgah will be under CCTV cover. “Those who come here to pray will be searched if necessary. They will have to go through the archway. There will be a 4-tier security measures in this entire area. If it is not possible to pray at Eidgah due to adverse weather, then the same arrangement will be taken for the National Mosque Baitul Mukarram,” he added.
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The decision was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting held at the Ministry of Religious Affairs yesterday to decide the official programme to celebrate the upcoming Eid.
Minister of State for Religious Affairs Faridul Haque Khan presided over the meeting, the meeting sources said.
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