Bishwa Ijtema ends with Akheri Munajat today

The first phase of three-day Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after Hajj, is set to end through the Akheri Munajat (final prayer) in Tongi of Gazipur on Sunday.

Maulana Jubair Hassan, Bangladeshi leader of Tabligh Jamaat, is scheduled to conduct the final prayer between 11:00am and 12:00 noon, reports UNB.

The Ijtema began on the banks of the Turag River in Tongi after Fazr prayers on Friday with "a'm bayan" (general sermons) by Pakistani Islamic scholar Maulana Obaidul Khorshed.

Thousands of local and foreign devotees took part in the religious event to seek divine blessings of the Almighty Allah.

Maulana Abdur Rahman, an Indian leader of Tabligh Jamaat, delivered sermons on Saturday.

Anwar Hossain, commissioner of Gazipur metropolitan police, said the vehicular movement would remain suspended from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Joydebpur on the Dhaka-Mymenshingh Highway from 4:00am so that the congregation ends well.