Srinagar: Thousands of devotees offered Friday prayers at Khanyar, Srinagar to mark the Urs of a sufi saint Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani.
The Urs is observe on the 11th day of Islamic month Rabi’ al-Sani.
Devotees including men, women and children thronged to the shrine, called Dastgeer Sahib, in order to catch a glimpse of the holy relic, which is believed to be a hair strand from the beard of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani whose mausoleum is situated at Baghdad in Iraq.
Local and non-local business establishments had installed their carts outside the shrine selling traditional snacks.
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