Muslims gather for Iftar, around the world

 Muslims gather for Iftar, around the world

Muslims around the world gather at Mosques, homes and roadside to break their fast during Ramadan, eat together and come closer to God as a community.

Asif Khan

Chicago

People gather to buy food from a roadside vendor to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan in Old Dhaka. Andrew Biraj/Reuters

Chinese Muslim men chat as they wait for the time to break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Niujie mosque, the oldest and largest mosque in Beijing, China. Students and civil servants in China's Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Andy Wong/AP

Chinese Muslims gather to break their fast during Ramadan at the Niujie mosque, the oldest and largest mosque in Beijing, on Wednesday. Andy Wong/Associated Press

Muslim Bosniak people break their fast with pizza at a fortress overlooking Sarajevo on Wednesday evening. Amel Emric/Associated Press

Pakistani Muslims break their fast during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in eastern Pakistan's Lahore, on Tuesday. Sajjad/Xinhua/Zuma Press

A Muslim family prays before breaking their fast on the first day of holy month Ramadan at the Jama Masjid in New Delhi. (Source: AP)

A Muslim family breaks its fast on the first Iftar of the holy month of Ramadan at the Jama Majid in New Delhi on Monday. (Source: PTI)

People breaking their fast on the first day of Ramzan at Mahim on Monday. (Source: Express photo by Prashant Nadkar)

In this Sunday, June 29, 2014 photo, displaced Iraqi citizens gather for a communal meal to break their fast during the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at an encampment for displaced Iraqis who fled from Mosul and other towns, in the Khazer area outside Irbil, northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

People eat at the breaking of fasting of the second day of Ramadan, in the premises of the Seeds of Solidarity ('Graine de Solidarite') association, on June 29, 2014, in Bordeaux. Founded in 1986, Seeds of Solidarity gives away free meals all year in the streets of Bordeaux, and serves up to 300 meals every night during Ramadan, to homeless and deprived people, regardless if they are Muslim or not. (MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP/Getty Images)

A Malaysian Muslim woman feeds her child as they break their fast on the first day of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan in Kuala Lumpur on June 29, 2014. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)

An Afghan resident distributes dates as others break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan at the Wazir Akbar Khan Mosque on June 29, 2014. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)

In this Sunday, June 29, 2014 photo, displaced Iraqi boys scramble to receive food to break their fast during the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at an encampment for displaced Iraqis who fled from Mosul and other towns, in the Khazer area outside Irbil, northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Afghans pray before breaking their fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

An Iraqi Kurdish woman puts the final touches to bowls of food on the first day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, for families who fled the violence in the northern province of Nineveh, at a mosque in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on June 29, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Bangladeshi street vendors prepare Iftar food to break the daytime fast on the first day of Ramadan at a bazaar in the old part of Dhaka on June 30, 2014. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Syrian Muslims break their fast on the first day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, in northern city of Aleppo on June 29, 2014. (ZEIN AL-RIFAI/AFP/Getty Images)

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