{"id":29384,"date":"2019-06-04T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29384"},"modified":"2019-06-04T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T19:59:07","slug":"worshippers-gathered-in-small-heath-park-for-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/04\/worshippers-gathered-in-small-heath-park-for-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Worshippers Gathered in Small Heath Park for Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims across the world are celebrating Eid, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-1.jpg 1841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Over 100,000 gathered on Tuesday 4 June in Small Heath Park for prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 140,000 people attended the event, according to organisers, expected a similarly turn out.<\/p>\n<p>The event, hosted by Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre, is now in its eighth year and has seen growing numbers since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan is the holiest month in the Muslim calendar, where Muslims focus on personal reflection and prayer through three types of worship: charity, prayer and fasting.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pic-3.jpg 1841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims across the world are celebrating Eid, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Over 100,000 gathered on Tuesday 4 June in Small Heath Park for prayer. Last year, 140,000 people attended the event, according to organisers, expected a similarly turn out. The event, hosted by Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}