In the final lap of Ramzan, just a couple of days before the last fasting day, schedule of congregational Eid namaaz at mosques across the national capital were put up in Muslims neighbourhoods.
Residents of the Walled City would get calls from exhilarated friends and relatives staying in NCR cities to check on prayer timings of historic mosques — Jama Masjid, Fatehpuri or Eidgah near Sadar Bazaar.
The customary enthusiasm is conspicuously absent this year as all places of worship in the city including three large mosques are shut because of the lockdown implemented to curb the spread of the Covid-19.
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