The World - News from Aug. 27, 1985
Muslims celebrated the grandest feast in the Islamic calendar as worshipers in Saudi Arabia marked the climax of the annual pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest sites. In Cairo, thousands of Muslims offered prayers at dawn, then slaughtered sheep and distributed meat to the poor to observe the Feast of Sacrifice, or Eid al Adha. Saudi authorities said 851,000 Muslims from 118 countries converged on the shrines at Mecca and Medina.
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