Gazipur: The second phase of Biswa Ijtema concluded on Sunday with the Akheri Munajat on the bank of the Turag River at Tongi in Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka

Several lakhs of Muslim devotees, both from home and abroad, converged on the congregation venue and attended the concluding prayers seeking world peace, divine forgiveness, blessings for the Muslim Ummah.

Hafez Mohammad Zubayer, the Imam of Kakrail Mosque in Dhaka, conducted the 27-minute Akheri Munajat which began around 10:18am.

He recited the final prayers in Bangla like the first phase of Biswa Ijtema held on January 12-14.

Apart from the Ijtema venue, thousands of devotees joined the munajat from the rooftops and terraces of nearby houses, roads and open fields.

Islamic scholars from different countries delivered sermons on various aspects of Islam at the Ijtema. The second phase of the three-day Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after the hajj, began after Fazr prayers earlier on Friday.

Around 4,000 foreign devotees from 79 countries joined the second phase of Ijtema.

Meanwhile, Mohor Ali, in his sixties, a devotee hailing from Jamalpur, and Shahidullah, around 60 years old, from Keraniganj, died at the Ijtema ground early in the morning.