Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, will be celebrated in Bangladesh tomorrow if the moon is sighted today.
The National Moon-Sighting Committee is scheduled for this evening to hold a meeting to determine the date of Eid-ul-Fitr, according to religious affairs ministry officials.
If the Ramadan is a 30-day month on the Arabic calendar this time, the Eid will be celebrated on Thursday.
State minister for religious affairs Mohammad Faridul Haque Khan, also president of the committee, is scheduled to preside over the meeting and would decide about the festival depending on the committee鈥檚 decision.
Five Eid congregations will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque here on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, an Islamic Foundation press release said on Sunday.
According to the release, the first Eid jamaat will be held at 7:00am, second one will take place at 8:00am, while the third one at 9:00am and the fourth one at 10:00am. The last Eid jamaat will be held at 10:45am.
The government employees have got three-day for Eid vacation starting from April 10 to April 12 as a public holiday.
Tens of thousands of people have already left Dhaka city to celebrate the festival with their dear and near ones at village homes.
The crescent moon was not sighted in Saudi Arabia and the Eid-ul-fitr will be celebrated on Wednesday, according to a Saudi Arabia news portal Haramain.
The main Eid jamaat at the capital鈥檚 National Eidgah will be held at 8:30am in the morning, according to a press release of the Dhaka South City Corporation issued on Monday.
DSCC public relations officer Abu Nasher said that it had taken all necessary preparations for holding the main jamaat of Eid-ul-Fitr at the National Eidgah.
鈥�35,000 devotees can attend Eid jamat in the National Eidgah,鈥� he said, adding that the Dhaka South City mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh will visit the national Eidgah today at about 11:00am.
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a statement on Monday greeted countrymen and world Muslim community on the occasion of Eid-ul-fitr.