For the first time, London's West End has been lit up with 30,000 lights to mark the holy month of Ramadan. Coventry Street, which links Leicester Square with Piccadilly, is illuminated with "Happy Ramadan". Ramadan is a part of MY faith I keep that to myself. I decorate MY house with hadith, calligraphy etc. I abstain from food and drink as it's MY choice. This however is OUR space and does not feel inclusive. Why couldn't they have just waited and put up 'Happy Eid' like they do with Christmas, or Diwali or Easter? It's so strange. It’s lent now. 13 votes, 12 comments. 2.8M subscribers in the atheism community. Welcome to r/atheism, the web's largest atheist forum. All topics related to Watch: London Ramadan lights switch on. Video, 00:00:29 Watch: London Ramadan lights switch on. Published. 7 March 2024. 0:29. Ramadan volunteers to give food to students. Published. 2 days ago. Ramadan is almost upon us and to celebrate the holy month London will once again host an array of themed lights in the West End. Marking a time of reflection, prayer, and giving, over Ramadan , Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise and sundown and engage in forms of worship throughout the day to build a stronger relationship This year will be the third annual display of Ramadan lights in London, and will light up gloomy London nights from February 28 until March 29, 5pm to 5am. The display is apparently inspired by The holy month of Ramadan is observed by over a million Muslims in London, including Sadiq Khan himself and it involves fasting in the daylight hours for a month. Londoners may remember seeing the first ever Ramadan lights installation last year in Piccadilly Circus, which was ceremoniously switched on by the Mayor of London. Ramadan 2025: Lights switched on in London’s Piccadilly Circus to mark start of holy month for Muslims. Over 1,500 people attended the event to mark the start of the month of fasting. Sadiq Khan turned on London's first Ramadan lights in 2023. Between Friday 28 February-Sunday 6 April 2025, a dazzling display of over 30,000 LED bulbs, inspired by Islamic geometric patterns and Isn't it okay for a minority to have their religious festival recognized? You have easter celebrations on one side and ramadan on the other and everyone is happy. I really don't see why you aren't. I mean I do but I'll be banned from r/europe if I call you out for what you are. According to the 2021 UK government census quite a lot in London, specifically Tower Hamlet having 39.9% that identify as Muslim.. But about ~15% of Londoners identified as Muslim in the census (the London metropolitan area has a total population of about 14 million). Yeah "Happy Ramadan" or the closest equivalent wording that would fit (Eid Mubarak or similar) would be completely fine As was the "If you feel unwell and need assistance during fasting, please let a member of staff know" thing that accompanied one of these messages (and which I saw being used as the excuse for the whole thing, despite only being on one of about 4 of these messages I've seen Kirken har trikset og fikset for å få hedenske høytider til å blir kristne så lenge kirken har eksistert. Allehelgensdag ble feks flyttet fra mai til 1.november fordi Boniface 4 ikke synes noe om at folk ikke turte/ville å gå bort ifra gamle skikker som bla handlet om at de døde kom tilbake, da måtte folk kle seg ut for å ikke bli kjent igjen og sette av plass ved bordet til de døde Ramadan started almost 2 weeks back which is a time for fast and abstinence and goes on for 40 days but they had to put the lights through easter weekend, There is more going on than just celeberating Ramadan How to celebrate Ramadan in London: Related Topics Islam Religion Religion and Spirituality comments Reddit . reReddit: Top posts of May 5, 2019. Reddit . Now rewards for good deeds in ramadan are multiplied by 70x , so naturally you want to make as many good deeds as possible, extra praying late at night, reading the quran several times in ramadan, sadaqah, feeding the poor, Again i recommend easing urself into this , try to wake up 30 min before fajr and pray , try to have a daily portion to be Most mosques in the UK follow Saudi when it comes to the start of ramadan, and for eid. However there are also about large number of mosques that follow Morocco as it is the closest Muslim country to the UK which in turn causes ramadan and eid to be a day later in comparison to the former. The tough part is resisting outings like sheesha or ice cream because I know it'll mess me up 10x worse during ramadan than the rest of the year, but honestly most friends will poke fun the first few times you go out and dont indulge (or don't go out at all), but its 4 bloody weeks a year, I'm not so impatient or socially starved that I can't TLDR of the article: “The Open Kitchen in london operates year round offering fresh hot food with various protein options, fruits, vegetables and food, all run by a revolving team of 400 volunteers, and 13 employed chefs. Daylight hours are decreasing each year. In about six years, we'll start having Ramadan in Standard Time. From then on out for a number of years daylight hours will continue to decrease as we head into Ramadan during December. The longest fasts are behind us and happened in 2017 I believe.
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