Eid al-Adha feast on 7 April

Saudi Arabia announced that the Eid al-Adha feast, which comes one day after the climax of the announced Haj pilgrimage to Mecca, would start on April 7.

The high judicial council, Saudi Arabia's supreme legal authority, said in a statement read on Saudi television that April 6 would be the climax of Haj, when an estimated two million Muslims would march to mount Arafat, the site of prophet Mohammad's last sermon 14 centuries ago.