Eid-ul-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice)

The Islamic feast of sacrifice, one of Suriname’s newer national holidays, centres on prayer, charity and shared meals.

After morning prayers, families who can afford it sacrifice a goat, sheep or cow and share the meat three ways: with those in need, with relatives and neighbours, and at home. Like all Islamic holidays the date follows the lunar calendar, moving about eleven days earlier each year.

Photo: Ihsaan Justin Shameem, CC BY-SA 4.0