TIWN July 7, 2016
AGARTALA, July 7 (TIWN): Eid-ul-Fitr is being celebrated across Tripura today as men, women and children dressed in their best thronged mosques, shrines and Eidgahs across the State for special prayers to mark culmination of the fasting month of Ramzan.
Eid-ul-Fitr is being celebrated across Tripura today as men, women and children dressed in their best thronged mosques, shrines and Eidgahs across the State for special prayers to mark culmination of the fasting month of Ramzan.
Muslims from all walks of life started making a beeline to the Eidgah (prayer ground) or a mosque for offering the Eid prayers as a thanksgiving for the month-long fasting. Ramzan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is observed as a fasting period by Muslims the world over who abstain from food and water during the period extending from 30 minutes before the sunrise to sunset.
The biggest gathering of Eid prayers was witnessed at Agartala's Gedu Miah Masjid where thousands of faithful offered the Eid prayers, officials said.
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