Photo Gallery: Celebrating Eid, the end of Ramadan
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?By The Associated PressNepalese Muslims offer prayers on the eve of Eid al-Fitr in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Nepalese Muslims offer prayers on the eve of Eid al-Fitr in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Indonesian Muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayers that mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Porong, East Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
Pigeons fly outside Shah-e-Dushamshera's mosque where Afghans offer the Eid al-Fitr's prayers that marks the end of holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Esmma Seyid, 5, of Tustin, Calif., center, prays alongside her mom, Sitaho Hassan, second left, and her aunt, Hawo Dirshe, second right, during the Eid al-Fitr prayer celebrating the end of Ramadan, the holiest Muslim month, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, at the Great Park in Irvine, Calif. The event was sponsored by the Islamic Center of Irvine. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Mindy Schauer) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT
Female Iranian worshippers perform Eid al-Fitr prayer in Shahr-e-Ray, south of Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Muslims around the world celebrate the Eid al-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Muslims around the world on Saturday started celebrating the Eid al-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of the month of Ramadan this weekend.
The Muslim holy month devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers, good deeds and abstinence from worldly pleasures culminates with the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. In most places Eid is usually celebrated up to three days and is a public holiday.
Shoppers flooded markets in India to stock up on food and other treats and in Pakistan, women decorated their feet and hands with henna tattoos. Other people gave prayers by themselves or with large crowds in the Philippines and Indonesia.
Here is a look at celebrations of Eid al-Fitr around the world.
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