Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is being celebrated worldwide on Monday. Traditionally, Eid is a three-day celebration marked by large family festivities and prayers.
Families also visited the graves of their loved ones. Also, many people chose to travel to their hometowns or coastal cities for vacations.
Thousands of Muslims living in the countries flocked to mosques in the morning to perform the Eid prayer and celebrated with their loved ones.
Muslims living in North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro welcomed the Eid al-Fitr with enthusiasm.
The beginning and end of Islamic months are determined by the sighting of the new moon.
Over the past two years, Muslims celebrated amid curfews and social distancing measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites, declared that Monday is the start of the three-day Eid al-Fitr, one of the holiest occasions in the Islamic calendar.
Many other countries have done the same. A few others, such as Afghanistan, celebrated on Sunday.
People across Turkey celebrated the first day of the holiday with many mosques packed for Eid al-Fitr prayers early in the morning and people hosting friends and families at their homes.
The roads leading to the Old City area of occupied East Jerusalem were filled with young, old, women, men, and children who wanted to go to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
On Monday, thousands of worshippers were seen at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca to perform the early morning special Eid prayers. Similar scenes were seen in and around mosques in other countries such as Egypt, Morocco and Jordan.
Eid al-Fitr is also usually marked with social gatherings, new clothes, and cookies filled with dates or nuts.
The holiday has brought joy, particularly to children, who receive candies and presents as part of the tradition.
Nearly 200,000 people performed the Eid prayer in Masjid al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem under Israeli occupation.
The first hours of the Ramadan feast in Jerusalem started with a festive atmosphere.
