Muslims celebrate Eid al Fitr with a day of prayers, feasts and family visits after Ramadan. Cities such as Damascus, Baghdad and Beirut were crowded with worshippers heading to mosques and cemeteries.
People attend an Eid al Fitr prayer, marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at a public park, outside El-Seddik Mosque in Cairo, EgyptAfter the Ramadan month of fasting, Muslims celebrate Eid al Fitr with a day of prayers, feasts and family visits.
Capital cities including Damascus, Baghdad and Beirut were crowded with worshippers heading to mosques and cemeteries.People attempt to catch balloons released after Eid al Fitr prayers outside El-Seddik Mosque in CairoImage:Muslim women display their henna decorations at the Masjid Salaam grounds in Nairobi, Kenya
Many Muslims visit the graves of their loved ones after the early morning prayer on the first day of Eid al Fitr.
"After the Eid prayer we always visit our dead... to pray and pay our respects, may God have mercy and forgive them on this blessed day," said Atheer Mohamed in Baghdad's Azamiya cemetery.
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