The first phase of the 55th Biswa Ijtema has ended with the Akheri Munajat (final prayer) on Sunday (Jan 12).
Thousands of Muslim devotees from home and abroad gathered on the Ijtema ground to join the Akheri Munajat along the banks of the Turag River in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

The imam of Kakrail Mosque in Dhaka and the leader of a Tabligh Jamaat faction Maulana Zubair Hassan administered the 40 minure munajat seeking world peace, forgiveness and divine blessings for mankind and the Muslim Ummah.
The Ijtema is the second largest Muslim congregation after Hajj.
During the second day of its first phase on Saturday, Indian Islamic Scholar Mawlana Abdur Rahman delivered sermons on different religious aspects in light of the Holy Quran.
During the Akheri Munajat on Sunday vehicular movements remained suspended from 5am at the Airport Road to Joydebpur intersection of the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, Mirer Bazar to Tongi bus stop of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway via Gazipur and Abdullahpur to Bypass of the Abdullahpur-Ashulia road.
However, special train services have been launched and Tongi station will offer stoppage for all the intercity express trains for some time.
About 8,500 members of different law enforcement agencies were deployed to ensure security around the Ijtema ground.
The death tolls of the devotees in the first phase of the Ijtema stood at nine so far as four more devotees died on Friday night.
The second phase of the Ijtema is scheduled to begin on January 17 at the same venue and will end on January 19.
Tablig Jamaat has been organizing the Biswa Ijtema on the bank of Turag River since 1967. Currently the Ijtema is being held in two phases since 2011 to ease the accommodation problem.