Dressed in their best, devotees thronged mosques, shrines and Eidgahs (prayer grounds) to offer Eid prayers.
The biggest congregation was held at Eidgah where nearly 30,000 people offered the prayers. The second largest congregation was held at Hazratbal Shrine on the banks of Dal Lake where Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was among the 25,000 devotees, official sources said.
Similar reports of large congregations were received from all district and tehsil headquarters of the valley, the sources said.
Although the congregational prayers passed off peacefully across the valley, an isolated incident of stone pelting and protests took place at Sekidafar area in the old city, the sources said.
They said a group of youth pelted stones at police and paramilitary personnel deployed on law and order duty. (More)
