RANGPUR, Aug 1, 2020 (BSS) – Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, is being celebrated with due religious solemnity here today in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
As per directives of the government and local administration, the Muslim devotees offered Eid prayers and special munajats in over 6,000 mosques across the district abiding by the government’s health directives.
Besides, arrangements of hand sanitizers were made at the entrances of mosques and no congregations were arranged in the Eidgahs anywhere in the district.
In the mosques, the Muslim devotees stood in every second row leaving one row in the middle inside and outside premises maintaining three feet distance to prevent community transmission of COVID-19 infection.
Marking the day, the national flag was hoisted atop government, semi-government, autonomous and private buildings and improved diets served among inmates of hospitals, jails, shishu paribars, orphanages and vagrant welfare centres across the district.
Divisional Commissioner KM Tariqul Islam, Mayor of Rangpur Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa, Deputy Commissioner Md. Asib Ahsan and officials offered Eid-ul-Azha prayers in the main congregation held at Court Jam-e-Mosque in the city at 8 am.
President of district Awami League (AL) Mamtaz Uddin, Ahmed, its General Secretary Advocate Rezaul Karim Razu, city AL President Shafiur Rahman Shafi, leaders of AL and its associate bodies and other political parties offered the Eid prayers at different mosques.
The biggest Eid-ul-Azha congregations of the district were held twice at Keramotia Jam-e-Mosque at 8:30 am and 9:30 am respectively.
Besides, the bigger Eid congregations were held at Police Lines Jam-e-Mosque twice at 7:45 and 8:30 am, Ashrafia Jam-e-Mosque at 8:30 am, Nasirabad Ekramia Jam-e-Mosque at 8 am, Jummapara Karimiya Madrash at 7:15 am, Kamarpara Kutubia Jam-e-Mosque, Kamal Kachna Jam-e-Mosque, Pakarmatha Jam-e-Mosque, Bahar Kachna Jam-e-Mosque and Dhap Mohammadpur Jam-e-Mosque between 8 am and 9 am in the city.
Besides, the Muslim devotees offered Eid-ul-Azha prayers maintaining physical distance, wearing masks and abiding by the health directives in the mosques at the upazila towns and rural areas between 8 am and 10:30 am across the district.
The Musollis offered special munajats seeking divine blessings for eternal peace of departed souls of their relatives, respite from the COVID-19 pandemic and continued peace and prosperity of the country, its people and the Muslim Ummah.
Talking to BSS, Divisional Director of the Islamic Foundation Mohiuddin Chowdhury thanked the devotees for abiding by the government’s health directives while offering Eid-ul-Azha prayers.