A Kashmiri Muslim reads the Koran on the
first day of Ramadan at the landmark
Jamia Masjid in Srinagar in India
first day of Ramadan at the landmark
Jamia Masjid in Srinagar in India
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| A defected Yemeni soldier who joined sides with anti-regime protesters reads the Koran as he sits on an armoured vehicle near the entrance to Taghyeer Square in Sanaa |
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| A Kashmiri Muslim father and son wash themselves at a fountain in the compound of Jamia Masjid or grand mosque before offering afternoon prayers on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Srinagar in India |
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| A man enters a mosque for evening prayers on the first day of Ramadan in Moscow |
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| A Pakistani Muslim prepares food stuff for 'Iftar' a time to break their fast, on the first day of holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Karachi |
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| A Palestinian boy dressed in a FC Barcelona jersey reads the Koran, Islam's holy book, in the Al-Furqan mosque in Gaza City |
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| A Palestinian boy plays with fireworks to celebrate the beginning of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in the town of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip |
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| A student reads the Koran before morning prayer on the holy month of Ramadan |
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| A visitor walks past a miniature replica of a mosque made of wafer biscuits at a mall in Surabaya |
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| An Afghan man makes sweets in a shop in Kabul on the eve of the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan |
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| Chinese Hui Muslim girls read the Koran, Islam's holy book, at the Niujie Mosque as they wait for their fast on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Beijing |
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| Indonesian Muslims perform Tarawih, an evening prayer marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia |
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| Libyan men perform the evening prayer at the end of the first fasting day of Islam's holy month of Ramadan in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi |
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| The sun sets behind Al-hussein Mosque on the first day of Ramadan in Amman, Jordan |