• Eid-Ul-Adha is usually celebrated for three days.
• If it begins at sunset on Wednesday, it will end on July 1,2023.
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Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has declared June 28, 2023 as a public holiday to mark Eid-Ul-Adha.
Kindiki noted the announcement in a gazette notice released on Monday.
"It is notified for the general information of the public that in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 (2) and part II of the Schedule, as read with section 3 of the Public Holidays Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration declares that Wednesday, the 28th June, 2023, shall be a public holiday to mark Eid-Ul-Adha (Idd-Ul-Azha)," the notice reads.
Eid-Ul-Adha is usually celebrated for three days.
If it begins at sunset on Wednesday, it will end on July 1, 2023.
The festival is the commemoration of the Quranic tale of Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail as an act of obedience to God.
Muslims believe that before he could carry out the sacrifice, God provided a ram in Isamail's stead. In the Christian and Jewish telling, Ibrahim is ordered to kill another son, Isaac.
During the festivals, Islams remember the sacrifice made by Abraham by slaughtering animals and helping the poor and needy.
The holiday is also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice and falls at the end of the annual Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj(Where thousands flock to Saudi Arabia yearly to visit Mecca—Islam’s holiest site.)