Muslims Begin Celebrating Eid al-Adha, The 'Festival Of Sacrifice'

Residents of Grozny, the capital of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, prepare to sacrifice a sheep for Eid al-Adha.

The holiday comes at the end of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. 

A Chechen woman takes a sheep to the slaughter for the holiday celebration. 

Residents of Grozny prepare for the festival.

A butcher carries a sheep near the Central Mosque in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Sheep are corralled before the ritual slaughter in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Kyrgyz men tie up sacrificial sheep at a livestock market in Bishkek.

Sheep at a market in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan.

Sheep are butchered in Kazan, Tatarstan.

A livestock merchant in Kazan, Tatarstan

A sheep is weighed before purchase at a market in Tehran.

A Pakistani boy waits to sell his sheep at a market in Islamabad. Pakistanis are observing Eid al-Adha on September 13, a day later than in many other countries. 

A Pakistani trader files the horns of a goat before putting it up for sale at a market in Karachi.

An Iraqi shepherd carries a sheep to a customer's car in Baghdad.

Ukrainian Muslims prepare for the holiday feast outside the Ar-Rahma Mosque in Kyiv.

Butchers at a livestock market near Pristina, the capital of Kosovo

Sheep, cows, and camels are decorated for the holiday in Afghanistan's Jawzjan Province.

Afghan customers and traders gather at a livestock market on the outskirts of Kabul.