{"id":486584,"date":"2026-03-20T22:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486584\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:30:35","slug":"bradford-moon-spotters-pass-on-skills-to-next-generation-for-eid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486584\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford moon spotters pass on skills to next generation for Eid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cloudy weather meant the moon was not spotted in the UK on Thursday so the New Crescent Society declared Eid on Saturday, but it was seen in Saudi Arabia and Morocco and many Muslims celebrated Eid on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The New Crescent Society is a British grassroots astronomy network founded in 2016, which seeks to unite British Muslims by following a sighting of the moon in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organiser Hamza Mutahir Khan, who has been spotting the moon every month for six years, said the network was growing and becoming more recognised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Six years ago there was only two or three people and over the years it&#8217;s been a communal thing with the community getting to do it more often,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The mission and the vision is to put the whole of English Muslims regardless of background under one moon, as Muslims together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you don&#8217;t want to import or outsource the moon, there&#8217;s always the moon above us to follow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cloudy weather meant the moon was not spotted in the UK on Thursday so the New Crescent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-486584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}