The United Arab Emirates' Ramadan Crescent Moon Sighting Committee has announced that Ramadan 2025 will begin on Saturday, March 1. The decision was made after officials sighted the new crescent ...

The Muslim world is preparing for the start of Ramadan 2025, but the exact date will depend on the sighting of the new crescent moon. Fasting will begin on either Saturday, March 1, or Sunday ...

Ramadan is not uniformly observed globally — the start date can vary by country or even be different mosque to mosque in the same city for a variety of reasons. But it all starts with a sighting ...

Coincidentally, a planetary alignment will join Ramadan's significant crescent moon. All of the other seven planets in the solar system — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and ...

Each month of that calendar begins with the sighting of the early crescent moon, and the holy month of Ramadan begins at the start of the ninth month. These customs go back centuries.

Your stargazing highlights for the week ahead include the first sighting of a slim crescent Moon, which this week will signal the start of the Islamic festival of Ramadan. You can then see a ...

Ramadan will end and Eid al-Fitr will only begin with the sighting of a New Moon—called the “Shawwal Moon”—likely on either on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 or on Thursday, May 13, 2021.

How is the first day of Ramadan determined? It takes the moon 29.5 days to complete a lunar cycle.As a month cannot have half a day, some Islamic months will have 29, while others will have 30.

Muslim worshippers enter Abu Hanifa Mosque awaiting the announcement of the beginning of Ramadan, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 10, 2024. Ramadan starts the day after moon sighting which marks ...

For centuries, the sighting of a crescent moon has signaled the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fast and prayer for Muslims. This year, the sight was obscured in some parts of the world by the ...

12:20 PM EST UAE confirms Ramadan 2025 will begin on March 1. The United Arab Emirates' Ramadan Crescent Moon Sighting Committee has announced that Ramadan 2025 will begin on Saturday, March 1.