20 Beautiful Photos of Ramadan From Around the World

By Sherry El Kilany On Jun 29, 2014

As the first day of the Holy Month pushes on and all of you sit at your desks and behind your steering wheels counting the hours till iftar, here are some stunning and breathtaking photos of Ramadan happening around the world.

Sometimes we need a reminder that this Holy month is celebrated all around the world in different ways, with yet so much love;

The epitome of Ramadan looks, the whirling dervish — The epitome of Ramadan, the whirling dervish

Festively lit Mosque in Ottawa - Canada — Festively lit Mosque in Ottawa – Canada

istanbulramadan — Ramadan decorations Istanbul

El Moez Street prayers in Cairo — El Moez street prayers in Cairo

ramadan1 — The crescent moon is seen at sunset on top of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

ramadan29 — A Kashmiri man rests after performing prayers inside the shrine of Sufi saint, Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, during Ramadan in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli)

ramadan15 — A Muslim woman reads a copy of the Koran at the Istiqlal mosque during the second day of ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)

ramadan18 — An Egyptian family looks to buy a “Fanus Ramadan”, a traditional lantern popular during Ramadan, at a shop in el-Sayeda Zaynab district of downtown Cairo (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

ramadan22 — The Al-Zaim family of Duxbury, Massachusetts sits, gathered together for their dinner after 7pm, to break their Ramadan Fast. (Justine Hunt/Globe Staff Photo)

ramadan26 — Lebanese “Musaharati” Mohammed Fanas wakes up observant Muslims for their overnight “suhur” meal before the day’s fast in Sidon’s Old City in south Lebanon just before dawn. (MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images)

ramadan31 — Afghan men offer prayers on a hill top overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian woman is seen on her way to pray for the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) — A Palestinian woman is seen on her way to pray for the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A seller of traditional Syrian sweets calls out for customers in the Meidan quarter of Damascus. Sales of the sweets go up during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri)

WE SAID THIS: No matter where you are in the world, there is just something so beautiful about how Ramadan is spent with friends and family!

Sherry El Kilany

Some call her a workaholic, others call her driven, she calls herself a hustler. Some find her outgoing, others standoffish, she's just a confused intro/extrovert.

Spanning over 10 years in the event and marketing industry, Sherry began her career in Egypt's burgeoning Sports Marketing industry, to quickly be recruited by the Middle East's largest Film Studio Rotana Studios to spearhead and manage their Marketing Department, before starting her own company Nineteen84 Luxury & Entertainment Management.

Along the way she built some of Egypt's most successful websites, leading up until Scoop Empire, a compilation of her and her 2 partners (best friends) brain child!

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