{"id":8664,"date":"2020-08-03T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:01:06","slug":"eid-celebrations-croke-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/latest\/eid-celebrations-croke-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Eid Celebrations At Ireland\u2019s Largest Football Stadium Send An Important Message Of Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Irish football stadium opened up for Muslims to celebrate a socially distanced Eid Al-Adha and the footage is going viral.<\/p>\n<p>Croke Park, the home of Gaelic football in Ireland, invited 200 Muslims to perform Eid prayer and the move has been praised by the Islamic community in Ireland and beyond for sending a message of welcome and promoting a shared society to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Croke Park is the country\u2019s largest sporting arena, with a capacity for 82,000 supporters and this is the first time the park was used for Muslim prayer.\u00a0Due to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/covid19-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID<\/a>\u00a0regulations, prayers at mosques were not possible, which lead Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri, the chair of Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council to reach out and ask for the space.<\/p>\n<p><!--infeed--><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDThuvcpGwD\/?utm_source=ig_embed<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;This is Ireland&#8217; &#8211; Irish Twitter is proud of the historic move<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a moment!. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialgaa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@officialgaa<\/a> opens its historical <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrokePark?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CrokePark<\/a> for Muslims to celebrate and pray in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EidAladha2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EidAladha2020<\/a>. This is Ireland, the accepting, the tolerant, the diverse and the beautiful homeland and for all. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%AD%D9%89?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0639\u064a\u062f_\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0636\u062d\u0649<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ty3cxYO9RF\">pic.twitter.com\/ty3cxYO9RF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Razan Ibraheem (\u0631\u0632\u0627\u0646) (@RazanIRL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RazanIRL\/status\/1289119385785966592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>A mix of faiths attended the historic day, the first of its kind in the history of the park, and the Irish President Michael D. 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