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Eïd el Kebir (Bakr-Id)

Sacrifices & a 2-day holiday (May/June)

Eïd el Kebir (“the big festival”, also known as Eïd el Adha or Bakr-Id) is the most important religious day of the Islamic calendar. In Morocco it's a two-day public holiday, on the first day of which almost everything closes.

Eïd el Kebir is the time to go on haj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, but it is also a day to sacrifice a sheep and eat it with your family. Every family which can afford to will buy a sheep, keep it at home in the run-up to the festival, and then slaughter and eat it on the day itself. You'll see lots of people leading sheep around in the run-up to the festival.

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Seasons, Festivals & Events

Images by David Young, D@LY3D, Fraser Cairns