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2009-11-27 UKRINFORM

Service held in Zagreb Mosque to celebrate Kurban Bairam

ZAGREB, Nov 27. (Hina). Muslim faithful worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Adha (or Kurban Bairam in Turskish), the Festival of Sacrifice, to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God.

On this occasion, the head of the Islamic community in Croatia, Mufti Sevko Omerbasic, held a service in the Zagreb mosque on Friday morning.

Islam uses the lunar calendar, which is shorter that the Gregorian one. This accounts for the annual change in the Muslim holiday dates.

According to a centuries-old tradition, Kurban-Bairam is celebrated 70 days after Uraza-Bairam, a holiday marking the end of the Moslem fast in the holy month of Ramadan. Kurban-bairan takes place on the tenth day of the zul-hidj month, which usually witnesses pilgrimage to the Islamic sacred places in Saudi Arabia and symbolises the end of hadj.

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic sent a message to Omerbasic, offering his best wishes on the occasion of Kurban Bairam, the Office of the President said in a statement.

Earlier this week, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, Parliament Speaker Luka Bebic and the Culture Minister and head of the Commission for Relations with Religious Communities, Bozo Biskupic, too sent messages to Omerbasic and the Muslim faithful in Croatia on the occasion of Kurban Bairam.