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COLOMBO – Crescent for the month of Dul Hajj was cited in Sri Lanka and it was declared that the Hajj Festival will be on June 29 and the Arafat Day will be on the previous day in Sri Lanka .
The chairman of the Crescent Committee Assheikh Hisham told Colombo Times following a meeting held at the Grand Mosque in Colombo on Monday June 19, that the crescent for the holy month of Dul Hajj was sighted in several parts of the island.
Chairman of the Colombo Grand Mosque Taufik Zubyr told Colombo Times that the committee decided the Eid on June 29 based on the evidence produced by the eye-witnesses who sighted the moon. “ We want a peaceful Hajj with unity among all our brethren “he concluded .