Dhaka Eid in frames

Eid-ul-Azha, one of the largest religious festivals of the Muslims, is celebrated amid much festivity and religious fervour all over the capital on Wednesday.

The main thoroughfares of Dhaka city were decorated with the national flag and banners inscribed with 'Eid Mubarak' in Bangla and Arabic. Public buildings were illuminated on the occasion.

Jatiya Eidgah hosted the largest congregation of Eid-ul-Azha prayers in the morning while city corporation cleaners started clearing sacrificial animals' waste on Eid day.

Baitul Mukarram National Mosque hosts the second largest congregation of Dhaka on 22 August, 2018. A total of five congregations (Jamaat) have been held here this year. 

Two on-duty policemen embrace after offering Eid-ul-Azha prayers at Jatiya Eidgah on 22 August, 2018. 

A man and a boy hold two placards on 22 August, 2018 at Jatiya Eidgah demanding release of renowned photographer Shahidul Alam and Eden Mohila College student Lutfunnahar Luma, arrested following recent demonstrations for safe roads. 

Meat of sacrificial animals, collected from different city areas by the poor, is being sold in the capital's Banasree area on 22 August, 2018. 

A city corporation worker clears Dhaka streets of blood and carcases of slaughtered livestock at Babu Bazar area of Old Dhaka on the Eid day on 22 August, 2018. 

Two city corporation workers clear Dhaka streets off blood and carcases of slaughtered livestock at Bongshal area of Old Dhaka on the Eid day on 22 August, 2018. 

Trading of rawhide underway at Nayabazar area of Old Dhaka on the Eid day on 22 August, 2018.

Bangladeshi Muslims perform Eid-ul-Azha prayers at Baitul Mukarrom National Mosque in Dhaka on 22 August, 2018.