"Amazing" start to Ramadhan Festival
About 1,000 people visited the first day of an event to celebrate an important Muslim festival.
Ramadhan Festival began yesterday at the O2 Academy at the University of Leicester, and will be running until Sunday.
Some 60 stall holders sold a range of Islamic gifts and art, while visitors enjoyed music performances, calligraphy displays and dance shows. There was also a play zone for children.
Festival organiser Abdul Osman said: "It has gone pretty amazingly so far. There were so many people, all having a good day, with lots going on.
"Lots of people of all faiths have visited."
Throughout the festival, cash will be collected for charity Muslim Aid, which will be spent on relief in drought-hit Africa.
Professor Robert Burgess, Vice Chancellor of The University of Leicester, said he was delighted to host the festival which he says will make an important contribution to the city's multi-faith community.
In the photo: Aatiqua Rawat, 21, looking at some of the clothes at the O2 Academy, Leicester
This story was picked up and published by DMU and Leicester Daily, 25 Aug 2011 (with this blog as source): http://paper.li/c3iq/dmu-and-leicester#!tag-leicester
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