Islamic Holy Days
A man in Nigeria rides a motorbike after prayers on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
Some 2.5 million Muslim faithful from all over the world descended on Mecca this year despite heavy flooding from recent torrential rains.
An impressive collection of photographs of this year’s Hajj and observance of Eid al-Adha—which comes at the end of the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca—can be found on the Boston Globe’s website. Link here.
Prayer time in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
