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called masjids by many Muslims; buildings for personal and communal Islamic prayer and worship. It can also be used for social, educational, and funerary events.

celebration for the end of Ramadan where families dress in their nicest clothes on the first moon twenty-nine or thirty days after the start of the month

celebrated at the end of Hajj, and it commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael

Marked as a day of fasting which marks the day God freed Moses and the Hebrew people from the grip of the Egyptian pharaoh.

a place that attracts people of a particular group or with a particular interest

Islam’s second holiest city. The city which Muhammad migrated to due to the strong opposition he faced because of his preaching in Mecca.

an Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, for Muslims the third most holy place after Mecca and Medina. It surrounds the sacred rock on which, according to tradition, Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac and from which the prophet Muhammad made his miraculous night ascent into heaven (the Night Journey).

the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.

a follower of the religion of Islam

is the traditions and practices of the islamic prophet Muhammad that constitute a model for Muslims to follow