Eid al-Fitr
About the Eid al-Fitr
The festival of breaking the fast falls on 1 Shawwal, the month after Ramadan, and is celebrated with communal prayer, feasting and charity. Because it depends on sighting the new crescent, neighboring countries sometimes mark it on different days. It drifts about 11 days earlier each solar year, cycling through the whole calendar in about 33 years.
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