(16 Mar 2025)
IRAQ RAMADAN MOSQUE FOOD
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Sulaymaniyah – 10 March 2025
1. Various of man filling pans and buckets with rice
2. Man adding chicken to meals
3. Men preparing meals inside kitchen
4. Tilt-down from the Grand Mosque to people and cars in street
5. People queuing for Ramadan meals inside the mosque
6. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Mohammed Salar, supervisor in charge of preparing Ramadan meals:
"The unique thing about Ramadan is that a large number of people are turning up. And the joyful thing is that the majority of them are poor, travelers and people observing the (Ramadan) fast. So, they come and break their fast here. Since the very beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, we have been serving 2,000 to 2,500 meals every day."
7. Various of people preparing food inside mosque’s kitchen, filling up buckets and pans with food
8. Prepared meals on tray
9. Various of people collecting food distributed at the mosque
10. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Abdullah Saeed, from Sulaymaniyah:
"Sulaymaniyah is full of refugees from the Iranian Kurdistan and displaced people from southern Iraq, I mean our Arab brothers as well as the Syrians, the majority of whom are refugees and have no jobs. So, they are all in need of these meals. And since there aren’t many job opportunities here, it is very useful and nice to get some free meals."
11. Various of people preparing dine-in meals inside mosque, filling containers with food
12. People packaging meals
13. Packaged and ready meals
14. People entering the Grand Mosque
15. Pigeons eating at mosque yard
16. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Fuad Barzenji, from Sulaymaniyah:
"This is an important cultural and religious center especially for the poor people in Sulaymaniyah, taking into consideration the current situation – as there are no salaries (being disbursed to government employees). It is obvious how people are queuing outside here. And if you noticed, they provide food for people in need twice per day, at noon and in the evening. So, this place became like a shelter and a warm family house for the poor people in this city."
17. Various of people praying inside mosque at sunset, which is when Muslims break their fast in Ramadan
18. Men walking to get meals
19. Fasting people getting free meals
20. Various of people eating inside mosque
21. Mosque building, sign reading (Kurdish): "Sulaymaniyah Grand Mosque, established in 1784" ++NIGHT SHOT++
STORYLINE:
A charity kitchen run from a historic mosque in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah city is providing meals to thousands of people every day during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The Sulaymaniyah Grand Mosque hands out meals to anyone who needs them throughout the year, but the mosque’s charity kitchen expands its activity during Ramadan.
"Since the very beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, we have been serving 2,000 to 2,500 meals every day," said Mohammed Salar, the supervisor in charge of preparing Ramadan meals inside the mosque.
The kitchen, run by volunteers, is funded by charitable businessmen and wealthy people in the city.
On a recent day, the kitchen staff cooked 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of rice, 90 kilograms (198 pounds) of beans, and 650 kilograms (1433 pounds) of chicken, Salar said.
For the next day, they were planning on preparing similar quantities of beans and rice, but to cook 700 kilograms (1,543 pounds) of meat instead of the chicken.
Charity and a spirit of giving are hallmarks of Ramadan.
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