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Photos: Muslims around the world mark first day of Ramadan 2022

Holiest month on the Islamic calendar started under eased social restrictions

Last updated: April 04, 2022 | 11:50

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Afghan Muslims offer prayers at the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Muslims read the Koran in a mosque in Treichville, a popular district of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa.

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A Muslim devotee performs Taraweeh prayers at a mosque in Singapore.

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Muslim devotees offer their evening prayers in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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Muslim worshippers perform the first evening Taraweeh prayer at the Baiturrahman grand mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

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Muslim devotees and other visitors are silhouetted against the illuminated Jama Masjid Mosque the old quarters of Delhi.

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A boy looks back as Muslims recite the first evening prayer at the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

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Muslim women offer evening mass prayers known as 'Taraweeh' at the Great Mosque of Istiqlal in Jakarta, Indonesia

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Men perform prayers at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Motorists ride past the Hasyim Asyari mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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A woman helps her daughter to put on a praying robe at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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People shop for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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People receive free food being distributed ahead of Iftar, the evening meal breaking the Ramadan fast, at the Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani mosque in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Syrians perform the special Taraweeh prayers in the village of Jandaris in the countryside of the northwestern city of Afrin in the rebel-held part of Aleppo province.

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