Eid al-Adha
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A man in a wheelchair praying alongside fellow Muslims outside Moscow?€™s Cathedral Mosque.
Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
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Muslims praying in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the holiday is called Kurban-Ait.
Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters
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Thousands of men attending a mass prayer outside a mosque in St. Petersburg.
Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters
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Men sitting near Moscow's Cathedral Mosque below a poster of an Orthodox icon.
Igor Tabakov / MT
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A Muslim man kneeling in prayer outside Moscow's Cathedral Mosque as others begin to disperse.
Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP
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People slaughtering a sheep in Ivye, Belarus, a small town about 130 kilometers west of Minsk.
Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters