Hundreds and 1000’s attend world’s 2d-largest Muslim gathering

Ghazipur, Bangladesh – Bigger than two million folk from over One hundred thirty international locations absorb taken phase within the 2d-largest Muslim gathering on the earth.

The annual Biswa Ijtema (« world congregation ») match concluded on Sunday with a mass, collective prayer on the banks of the Turag River, about 35km from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.

Over the three-day gathering, Muslim worshippers listened to scholars reciting and explaining verses from the Quran. It is considered as a possibility for Muslims to renew their commitment to Islamic values.

Second in dimension simplest to Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Muslim holy net sites in Saudi Arabia, Biswa Ijtema changed into first held in 1967.

It is organised by Tablighi Jamaat, a Sunni Muslim missionary crawl that started in India and whose contributors volunteer to unfold the Islamic faith.

Biswa Ijtema has been held in two phases since 2011 to accommodate the orderly selection of attendees.

This three hundred and sixty five days’s closing prayer changed into given in Bengali, Bangladesh’s official language, for the principle time since 1980.