Muslim pilgrims circling the Kaaba inside the Grand mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Muslim pilgrim throw pebbles at a stone pillar representing the devil, during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Muslim pilgrim throw pebbles at a stone pillar representing the devil, during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Young Muslim pilgrim have their heads shaved, after throwing pebbles at a stone pillar representing the devil, during the Hajj pilgrim in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Saudi police secure the street as Muslim pilgrims pray on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Water is sprayed over Muslim pilgrims as they pray outside Namira mosque in Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Camels are displayed for selling in an animal market in Karachi, Pakistan, ahead of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. Photo Shakeel Adil/AP.
Pakistani female police officers patrol the street as people are seen in a market ahead of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha in Multan, Pakistan. Photo Khalid Tanveer/AP.
Some of the approximately 12,000-13,000 members from 19 mosques in the Islamic Society of Greater Houston gather to celebrate Eid-al Adha in Houston, Texas. Photo Michael Paulsen/Chronicle/AP.
Yusuf Ravat, centre, plays with Hamza Siddiqui,9, left, and Saif Siddiqui,3, after the Eid-al Adha prayer service in Houston, Texas. Photo Michael Paulsen/Chronicle/AP.
Muslim pilgrims pray on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims move around the Kaaba, the black cube seen at centre, inside the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Photo Hassan Ammar/AP
Muslims around the world have marked the start of the Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. Read the story.
