Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Festival of Sacrifice

Eid al-Adha, called also Qurban Bayramı, is one of the most important religious holidays in the Muslim world. It is celebrated to commemorate Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his beloved son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God. However, God seeing the truthfulness of his faith gave him a ram to sacrifice instead. That is why nowadays Muslims sacrifice a sheep, goat, cow or a camel during the festival of sacrifice. Then the animal’s meat is divided into three parts to be shared between the closest family, relatives, friends and neighbours, and the poor. This year, the three days long celebrations begun on the 16th of November. If you want to find out a bit more, go to: http://www.isna.net/Islam/pages/The-Significance-of-Eid.aspx.
I was wondering whether I’ll be able to see any visible signs of Eid al-Adha in Baku, as it appears to be a secular city. I went for a walk around one of the centrally located suburbs and took a few photos:





Poor things. I’m definitely going to stick to my vegetarianism...





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