In Pictures: Feast of the Sacrifice

Muslims around the world are marking Eid al-Adha, the four-day Feast of the Sacrifice, recalling God's saving of Abraham's son, after the patriarch offered to sacrifice him.

Crowds gather early in the morning at Mustafa Mahmoud mosque in Cairo

A sheep is prepared for slaughter in Jordan

Morning prayer at the al-Yarmook Stadium in Gaza City

Sarajevo: Part of the festival is to remember the dead

A Palestinian family in Gaza visits the ancestral grave

Thousands fill the courtyard at the central mosque in Moscow

In the Indonesian capital Jakarta, members of the most populous Muslim nation in the world mark the day