PHOTOS: Festive fervour across globe as Muslims observe Ramadan 2019

DUBAI, UAE: Muslims break their fast with Iftar during the holy month of Ramadan on May 06, 2019 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Muslim men and women across the world observe Ramadan, a month long celebration of self-purification and restraint. During Ramadan, the Muslim community fast, abstaining from food, drink, smoking and sex between sunrise and sunset, breaking their fast with an Iftar meal after sunset. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)

INDONESIA: Students sit in circles as they attend a Quran recital class during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic Boarding School in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, May 6, 2019. Muslims around the world marked the start of Ramadan on Monday, a month of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

IRAN: Members of Tehran's moon-sighting headquarters search the sky for the new moon that signals the start of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the shrine of the Shiite Saint Imam Abdulazim in Shahr-e-Ray, south of Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Pakistan: Muslim faithfulls perform a special ‘Taraweeh’ prayer on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Karachi on May 6, 2019. (Photo by ASIF HASSAN / AFP)

PAKISTAN: A Pakistani Muslim carries a prayer mat rolled up on his shoulder in preparation for the night special prayers in Rawalpindi on May 6, 2019, ahead of the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. - Muslims are preparing for Islam's holy month of Ramadan, which is calculated on the sighting of the new moon, and during which they fast from dawn until dusk. (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI / AFP)

UKRAINE: Muslims cook food as they prepare to break their fast with the Iftar meal at sundown, during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Ar-Rahma Mosque in Kiev, Ukraine, on 6 May 2019. Muslims around the world are observing Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Gaza: Palestinian boys hold a homemade sparkler after breaking the fast on the first day of Ramadan in Gaza City, on May 6, 2019. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

INDIA: Muslims perform the first 'Tarawih' prayer on the beginning of the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan at the mosque in old city Srinagar, Kashmir on May 06, 2019. (Photo by Faisal Khan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)