Posts Tagged as ‘Biswa Ijtema’

January 30, 2009

The giant gathering

I spent the morning in Tongi – just north of Dhaka – at the second largest annual gathering of Muslims in the World – the Biswa Ijtema. The three day prayer meeting attracts between two and three million pilgrims from across the Bangladesh – and more than 150 other countries. The largest tent imaginable accomodates [...]