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Image of Asia: Afternoon prayers in India
Original Publication Date: June 16, 2016 11:07PM
Publication Updated: April 28, 2025 4:59AM
In this photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh, a shaft of light falls on Muslims as they offer afternoon prayers on the second Friday of the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Allahabad, India. Islam’s holiest month is a period of intense prayer, self-discipline, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. India’s 1.3 billion people are primarily Hindu with Muslims making up about 13 per cent of the population.
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