Tradition
TURKEY
Festival of Sacrifice
By Selin and Tugba
Religious Festivals mean a lot for Turkish
people. On these days, we visit our
parents and Grand parents, all the family
come together and have meal and drink
Turkish coffee and eat sweet. We visit our
neighbours. If we are offended with one
of our relatives,friends or neighbours we
Eid al-Adha “festival of the sacrifice”, also
called Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major
Festival, the Greater Eid or Eid e Qurban,
is the second of two religious holidays
celebrated by Muslims worldwide each
year. It honours the willingness of the
prophet Ibrahim( Abraham) to sacrifice
his young first-born son Ismail as an act
of submission to Allah’s command and his
son’s acceptance to being sacrificed,
before Allah intervened to provide
Abraham with a Lamb to sacrifice instead.
In the lunar Islamic calendar, Eid al-Adha
falls on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah and
lasts for four days. In the international
Gregorian calendar, the dates vary from
year to year, drifting approximately 11
days earlier each year.
make it up. The main purpose of religious
festivals in our religion is to love
eachother all the time and live in peace.
Because of the holiday we weren’t at
school last week
Do you have religious holidays? What do
you do on these days? Why do you
celebrate it?