USA: New Orleans-area Ahmadiyya Muslims invite community to share nightly Ramadan feast

As sunset drew near on that Wednesday, everyone filled a plate with dried dates, fruit salad and pakoras, a fried chickpea fritter, and waited until precisely 8:02 p.m. to eat.

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By Anna Maloney | June 21, 2017

Just before sunset on Wednesday (June 14), members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community gathered at their center in Kenner, as they do each evening of Ramadan, to pray and break their fast.

Like millions of Muslims around the world, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect abstain from eating or drinking, from dawn to dusk each day during the holy month. The means nothing by mouth - not even water.

Ramadan runs from Friday (May 26), through June 25, 2017.

At iftar, the nightly breaking of the fast, the faithful begin by praying, the men on one side of the center, the women on the other. The men lead the prayers, which the women listen to through a speaker. The youngest children play and wander throughout the center.
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