80,000 Muslims Offer Eid Prayers on Freezing Moscow Streets

Full Story / Photo: Yahoo News 6 November 2011

An estimated 80,000 Russian Muslims offered their prayers on the Eid-al_Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice on the freezing streets of Moscow today Monday the 6th November 2011.

Photo Above (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin ): Muslims pray during the Kurban Bairam (Eid al-Adha) festival, with a poster displaying an Orthodox icon in the background, in Moscow, November 6, 2011. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, marking the end of the haj, by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. 

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