Massachusetts
Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts to resume Ramadan gatherings
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Earlier than the onset of the pandemic, the Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts would maintain month-to-month weekly gatherings through the observance of Ramadan, the place households would conclude a day of fasting with a meal collectively.
Friday was the primary gathering in two years on the Islamic Society Mosque in West Springfield. They had been so happy to be again collectively at this beloved occasion, greeting one another through the month-long observance of Ramadan in a social approach.
The meals they eat throughout iftar, which is the night meal that Muslims break their Ramadan quick, is conventional to the international locations they arrive from. Easy meals that brings them collectively at sundown following a day of fasting.
Some 2 hundred Islamic Society members attended tonight’s resumption of their festive gathering. With Friday’s occasion, they are going to resume this as a weekly occasion throughout Ramadan, which concludes in early Might.