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Empire State Building glows green for Eidul Fitr

The iconic building honours Eid by changing their light display to green

Entertainment Desk July 18, 2015

The iconic building honours Eid by changing their light display to green. PHOTO: ESBNYC

The Empire State Building was lit green in celebration of Eidul Fitr this year, a tradition dating back to 2007.

Since 1976 the iconic building has maintained a custom of changing colour to recognize various occasions and organizations through a display of fancy lights.

The Empire State Building honoured the Muslim holy day by changing their usual display of white lights to green.

In 2007, the building's management said in a statement: "This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah."

New York's tallest building already celebrates Christmas, Hannukah and St Patrick's Day by changing the colour scheme of its three tiers of night-time lights.

COMMENTS (13)

Parveen Sultana | 9 years ago | Reply If 13% of New Yorker are muslims why is there no Sharia law? Time to implement Sharia law at least for muslims. The rest will follow later when they revert to Islam.

AA | 9 years ago | Reply @Shaukat shah: Why are you crediting it to yourself ? Do you have anything to do with it ?

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Shakil | 9 years ago | Reply Only because its owned by Muslims of middle east now!

Lolz | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: the colour of Orthodox Islam(Salafi) is black, whereas Sufism brought the colour of green - The whole world accepts the green colour for a reason.....

nasir khan | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: Stop whining. Even if the colour has nothing to do with Islam previously... it is being done now. Issue here is that Empire State management has paid respect and treated it as a gesture of good intentions. Respect it.

H | 9 years ago | Reply Aw, that's nice. NYC has also declared both Eids a holiday for its school systems. 10% of students in NYC schools are Muslim. 13% of NYC is Muslim.

vicktor d'souza | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: The Jolly Rogers is as good a banner as any...

I | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: It's a good gesture why are you always so negative about everything? Try to be positive for once you will feel very good trust me.

Muhammad | 9 years ago | Reply Good gesture to Islamic world. Thank you.

wb | 9 years ago | Reply There is no such thing called as color of Islam. Historically speaking most flags used by Islamic caliphs were BLACK. Even Tipu Sultan had black in his flag along with yellow. Only today, because the Muslims of the world have been reduced to dummies who cannot think for themselves, Muslims have accepted green as a representative color for everything that is Islamic.

the Skunk | 9 years ago | Reply Thank you very much indeed Empire State Building management. Eid Mubarak and Salams

Shaukat shah | 9 years ago | Reply Good from Shaukat shah

Rifat Siddiqi Mr. | 9 years ago | Reply It is not the case of a Dying Language, rather a language that is increasing it's vocabulary, long as Urdu is able to remain medium of exchange between people, it is going to be all right.

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