Baitul Mukarram National Mosque’s Senior Imam Maulana Mohammad Mizanur Rahman will conduct the prayers at the ground near the Supreme Court.

President Md Abdul Hamid, judges, cabinet members, MPs and politicians, are expected to join regular worshippers at the congregation.

Five congregations will also be held separately at Baitul Mukarram at 7am, 8am, 9am, 10am and 11am on the Eid day, the Islamic Foundation said.

Worshippers in Dhaka should not bring anything with them to the congregation except their prayer mats, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police chief Md Asaduzzaman Miah.

In the port city of Chittagong, worshippers can bring umbrellas with their mats.

Last year, a bomb and machete attack by terrorists left four including policemen dead at a checkpoint guarding the Sholakia congregation, Bangladesh's largest Eid prayer gathering held in Kishoreganj.

The prayers continued despite the attack which came barely a week after gunmen launched a foreigner-aimed attack on Gulshan's Holey Artisan Bakery, leaving 22 dead.

Law enforcers have planned the strictest security for the Sholakia congregation to be led by Moulana Farid Uddin Masud starting at 10am.   

But the 9am congregation at Dinajpur's Gor-e-Shahid might exceed Sholakia this year as authorities made arrangement for 500,000 to pray in the ground. The Sholakia ground and its surrounding areas usually host nearly 300,000 worshippers.

Muslims in Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday, the festival marking the end of Ramadan, if the Shawwal moon is sighted in the evening.

Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, is celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr on Sunday with most other Gulf Arab states like Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Oman however will celebrate Eid on Monday.

Dhaka

About 500 Eid prayer congregations will be held in Dhaka on Eid morning, according to DMP.

The Parliament’s South Plaza will hold a gathering, starting at 8am. Another will be held at Banani Central Mosque at 8:30am.

Dhanmondi's Eidgah Jame Masjid will start prayers at 8am.    

Two congregations will be held at the Dhaka University Central Mosque at 8am and 9am. Two more will be hosted in the yards of Muslim Hall and Shahidulla Hall from 8am.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology or BUET will hold its congregation also at 8am. Gendaria Eid Committee will host its Eid prayers at Jagannath University at 8am.

In Nilkhet, the two prayers at Nilkhet Mariam Bibi Shahi Mosque will start at 8am and 10am. The Airplane mosque of Elephant Road will start prayers at 8am.

The Naya Paltan Jame Masjid will begin Eid congregations at 8am.

Dewanbagh Sharif's Babe Rahmat will have three congregations -- at 8am, 9am and 10am.

The Ambar Shah Shahi Jame Masjid at Karwan Bazar will have its congregation at 8am.

The Tara Masjid in Old Dhaka, Dhalpur Narkel Bagan Masjid in Jatrabari and Kamrangirchar Central Eidgah will each hold two congregations from 8am and 9am.

Kazipara Central Jame Masjid will have three congregations, starting at 7:30am, 8:30am and 9:15am. There will be two more at Hazaribagh Park at 7am and 8am.

Mohammadpur's Masjid-e-Taiyabiyah will host prayers at 8am and 9am. Pallima Sangsad Maidan will have a congregation at 7:45am.

At West Agargaon, the Darul Iman Jame Masjid will start prayers at 8am. Demra's Dagairbazar Graveyard Eidgah will start Eid prayers at 8:30am.

Bongshal Ahle Hadis Bara Jame Masjid will start prayers at 7:30am.

Eid prayers will start at Basabo Chayabithi Jame Masjid at 8am, at Dakshin Basabo Balur Math at 7:15am and 8:30am.

Chittagong
 
The main congregation in Chittagong city will be at Jamiyatul Falah ground. Ahmadia Sunnia's Muhaddis Syed Abu Taleb Mohammad Alauddin Al Qaderi will start the prayers at 8am. A second congregation will start at 9am.

The country's second major city will have congregations in 161 locations in its 41 wards, according to Chittagong City Corporation.

The congregation of Baklia's Chittagong City Corporation Stadium will be at 8am. The Laldighi Jame Masjid set its congregation for a 8:10am start. Prayers at City Corporation Central Kabarsthan Jame Masjid at Jalalabad Arefin Nagar will start at 8:15am.
 
The Central Eid Committee in Chittagong will host a congregation at the gymnasium field adjoining the MA Aziz Stadium at 8:30am. The prayers will be moved inside the gymnasium if it rains on Eid morning. 

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