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Some Moscow schools reportedly plan to delay start-of-term festivals to avoid clashing with Muslim worshippers
Interfax
07:42, 24 august 2017

A school in Moscow’s Meshchansky District is reportedly planning to postpone its September 1 start-of-term parade, because the school is located near the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, the city’s largest house of worship for Muslims. This year, the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha falls on September 1, and tens of thousands of worshippers will fill the streets outside the mosque.

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