Baitul Mukarram Mosque to have five Eid congregations

The Baitul Mukarram National Mosque is scheduled to host five congregations on Sunday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, reports UNB.

In a statement, the Islamic Foundation said the first of the five congregations will be held at 07:00 am.

The second will take place at 08:00 am, the third one at 09:00 am and the fourth one at 10:00 am. The last one of the day will be held at 10:45 am. The foundation also fixed Imams and Mukabbirs for the congregations.

The holy Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated in the country on July 10 (Sunday) as the new moon of the Arabic month of Zilhaj was sighted in Bangladesh sky Thursday.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee after reviewing information about the sighting of the Jilhaj moon, said Md Abdul Awal Hawlader, additional secretary of the Religious Affairs Ministry.

The meeting was held at the office of the Islamic Foundation at Baitul Mukarram on Thursday evening with Awal Hawlader in the chair.