Sada-e-Watan Sydney ™
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The popular Sydney's Annual Multicultural Eid Festival & Fair (MEFF) was held on Sunday 11th October 2009 at the Fairfield Showground, Sydney, Australia. MEFF is a showcase of Islamic unity in diversity, Australian multiculturalism in action, a big family event, largest gathering of Muslims in the southern hemisphere, attracting around 30,000 people, Muslims and non-Muslims, men, women and children of multicultural background joined by federal, state and local politicians, community leaders, imams and all in a friendly Islamic atmosphere of peace, unity and enjoyment. The annual MEFF festival has been regularly held for the last 25 years after the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr at the end of the fasting month of Ramadhan.
On Sunday11 Oct, the Fairfield Showground was turned into a multicultural market place with over 130 stalls selling a huge variety of delicious food, clothing, jewellery, Islamic books, audio, video discs and computer software, toys, show bags and all. There was over 25 rides for small as well as big kids, some of them very new ones, new variety of cultural programs, martial arts displays, drama, songs, folk dances, HSC and community awards, Congregation prayers in thousands, Big Screen display and other festivities. Sada-e-Watan Sydney would like to congratulate Dr. Qazi Ashfaq Ahmad Patron-in-Chief of Meff, Zia-Ul-Islam Ahmad Trustee, Mr. Usaid Khalil President of MEFF and all other team workers & Volunteer's.
