(KZN.RU,
August 28, Mikhail Chentsov). Public transport routes passing through mosques
will begin work at 3.30 am in Kazan on the day of Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Adha).
Ilnur Shakirov, the head of the Department for Language Development and
Interaction with Public Organizations of the Executive Committee, reported this
during the Business Monday in the City Hall of the capital of the RT.
It will be
possible to get to the places of animals sacrifice in the morning by buses № 1,
2, 5, 6, 10, 10a, 15, 23, 29, 30, 31, 35, 35a, 37, 47, 53, 54, 56, 63, 68, 74,
74a, 75, and 91 and trolleybuses № 1, 2, and12. Transportation of citizens will
be carried out in accordance with the approved intervals of traffic on
weekends.
As I.
Shakirov noted, the holiday namaz will be read at 4.30 am from a sermon in the
mosques of Kazan. The ceremony of a slaughter of sacrificial animals will take
place within three days from September 1 to 3 in 20 prepared places. “The
city's services organize work to prevent unauthorized places of trade in
sacrificial animals and their slaughter in unidentified places”, said the
speaker.
Ilsur
Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, marked that the most important thing on the
holiday is a clear organization. “Transport and safety are the two main issues
that we have already discussed at the last anti-terrorist commission, so I ask
you to strictly implement all the tasks that have been set”, instructed the
Mayor.
One of the
main holidays in Islam comes on September 1, Kurban-Bayram. It means the date
of the end of the Hajj and is celebrated 70 days after the holiday of the Eid
al-Fitr.