New York’s Empire State Building to Shine Green for Eid
Pakistan Times Wire Service

NEW YORK: For the first time, New York’s world famous Empire State Building will be lit green from Friday to mark Eid-ul-Fitr, it was officially announced Wednesday.

The building management said the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah.

Eid al-Fitr is expected to be celebrated in New York on Saturday and the city’s tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.

Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with coloured lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.●