This is what Ramazaan/Ramadaan al-Kareem looks
like around the world..

Thousands of Turkish people break their fasting at the Blue Mosque
square in Istanbul, during the first day of the holy month of Ramadaan.
Ramadaan is sacred to Muslims because it is during that month that
tradition says the Quraan was revealed to the Prophet Muhammed [Sallal Laahu Alaiehi Wa Sallam]. The fast
is one of the five main religious obligations under Islaam. Photograph by Ozan Kose / Getty Images

Indonesians
Muslims pray in the first Taraweeh as Muslims begin fasting for Ramadaan
at Al-Akbar Mosque in Surabaya, Indonesia. Photograph by

Robertus Pudyanto / Getty Images

Muslims pray after breaking their fast on the first day of Ramadaan, the Muslim holy month, at a mosque in Beijing. China has banned civil
servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region
from fasting during Ramadaan and ordered restaurants to stay open. Photograph by Greg Baker / AFP / Getty Images

Men carry out Wudu, a washing procedure in preparation for prayer, at
the East London Mosque before the first Friday prayers of the Islaamic
holy month of Ramadaan in London, England. Photograph by Rob Stothard / Getty Images

Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray outside the Dome of the Rock at the
Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem during the first Friday prayer of
the holy month of Ramadaan. Israel announced it was relaxing restrictions
on the movement of Palestinians to and from the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadaan. Men aged over 40 and
women of all ages from the West Bank will be able to pray at the
Israeli-controlled holy site, and 800 people from the Gaza Strip will be
allowed to attend Friday prayers. Photograph by Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty Images

Kenyan Muslim men pray on the first Friday of Ramadaan, at Jamia mosque in Nairobi, Kenya. Photograph by Khalil Senosi / AP

Thai
Muslim women pray at the Pattani Central Mosque to mark the holy month
of Ramadaan in Pattani. Photograph by Tuwaedaniya Meringing / Getty
Images

Pakistani
Muslims perform a special “Taraweeh” evening prayer on the first day of
Ramadan at a mosque in Lahore. Photograph by Arif Ali / AFP / Getty
Images

Indian Muslim boys offer prayers prior to breaking their fast on the
first day of the Islaamic holy month of Ramadaan at Makkah Masjid in
Hyderabad.

Photograph by Noah Seelam / AFP / Getty Images

A
Malaysian Muslim arrives to offer prayers on the first Friday of the
holy Islaamic month of Ramadaan in Kuala Lumpur. Photograph by Manan
Vatsyayana / AFP / Getty Images

Bangladeshi street vendors prepare Iftar food for breaking the daytime
fast on the first day of Ramadaan, the holy fasting month of Islam, at a
traditional bazaar in the old part of Dhaka. Photograph by Munir Uz Zaman / Getty Images

Kashmiri Muslim women are accompanied by a child as they pray during the
first day of the month of Ramadaan, at the Shah-i-Hamdaan shrine in
Srinagar. Photograph by Tauseef Mustafa / AFP / Getty Images

Filipino Muslims take part in prayers at the Golden Mosque in Manila. Photograph by Jay Directo / AFP / Getty Images

A vendor carries traditional sweets called ‘Qatayef’ during the Muslim
fasting month of Ramadaan in Sidon’s Old City in southern Lebanon. Photograph by Ali Hashisho / Reuters

Iraqi Muslim men gather, on the roof of Imam Ali Mosque, waiting to see
the crescent moon marking the beginning of Ramadaan, at sunset in Basra,
Iraq. Photograph by Nabil Al-jurani / AP

Bosnian Muslims offer a prayer during late night prayer for upcoming
holy month of Ramadaan, inside memorial room for Srebrenica massacre
victims, at the memorial center Potocari, northeast of the Bosnian
capital of Sarajevo. Family members of the Srebrenica victims killed in
July, 1995, will mark the first night of Ramadaan at the memorial center
Potocari, in front of the graves of killed Muslims from this small
Bosnian town. Photograph by Amel Emric / AP

Muslims
pray on the first day of Ramadaan at a mosque in Taunggyi capital city
of Shan State, Myanmar. Photograph by Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters