Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a festive holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Families gathered for special prayers followed by feasts and holiday sweets starting Sunday after a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting. Muslims typically mark the holiday with family visits and outings, and children get new clothes.

Eid al-Fitr 2025 is expected to be celebrated onSunday, March 30, or Monday, March 31, depending on when the new crescent moon is sighted, according to UK-based Islamic charity organization, Islamic Relief. The festival is celebrated over the first three days of Shawwāl, the 10th month of the Islamic calendar.

With the expected sighting of the waxing crescent moon by the end of March, nearly 2 billion Muslims worldwide and the less than 1% of Rhode Islanders who are Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center , will celebrate Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.