Eid ul Adha 2011: Around the world in pictures

[somebozo]

Pilgrims pray at the Grand Mosque in Mecca to mark the end of the hajj

Chinese Muslims buy sheep to slaughter to mark the festival in Xining, Qinghai province

Muslims brave freezing Moscow streets to attend special prayers on the first day of Kurban Bairam (Eid al-Adha) along a street in Moscow on Sunday. (Reuters)

A Chechen boy prays in the main mosque in Grozny, Russia. Muslims in Russia call the festival Kurban-Bairam

Women offer prayers at a mosque on the outskirts of the Indian city of Ahmedabad on the eve of the festival

Devotees offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Taj Mahal mausoleum in Agra, India

Women attend prayer at the slopes of Mount Merapi in the village of Kalitengah Lor near the city of Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia

Palestinian girls walk towards Israeli soliders after prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque or the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a religious site to both Muslims and Jews

 

[somebozo]

Ethnic Turkish girls from the village of Cumpăna, Romania, wait to perform traditional dances in Bucharest during celebrations of the first day of Eid al-Adha

A Bosnian Muslim boy looks on during early morning prayers in the village of Balacici

Sunni Muslims in Siminshahr, Iran, prepare to slaughter a camel

What is left of that Camel!
The severed head of a sheep in a plastic bag during an Eid al-Adha ceremony in southern Tehran.

 

[nomi007]

every country have different styles

 

[somebozo]

islam is everywhere..no wonder..europe is worried!