Mirza Maaz, USA
Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya USA celebrated Eid-ul-Adha with great enthusiasm on 28 June 2023. Thousands of members offered Eid prayers at various mosques and salat centres across the country.
Jamaat members residing in Maryland and Washington, DC, offered Eid prayer at the national headquarter, the Baitur Rahman Mosque in Silver Spring, and the Fazl Mosque in Washington, DC. Altogether, almost 1,100 members had gathered.
Eid al-Adha gatherings were also organised in various mosques in Virginia. The members of the South Virginia Jamaat offered the prayer at the Masroor Mosque, where 1,100 people took part. Eid gatherings were also held in different cities in New York State, such as Syracuse, Albany, Willingboro, and New York City, where more than a thousand members offered Eid. In Pennsylvania, Eid gatherings were organised in the Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia, where 425 people offered prayer. In Houston, Texas, the Eid gathering was held at the Baitus Sami’ Mosque, where 500 people offered Eid prayer. In California, Eid gatherings were held at the Bait Hameed Mosque in Bay Point and Chino, where 820 people offered Eid prayer.