The watching women were the first to weep. A tear, a sniffle, a cry. The emotion spread among hundreds of men lined up in the street outside two mosques where 20 of their fellow believers died.
“May Allah grant us all peace,“ he intoned. “May all the brothers be free from danger.”
The minaret of the Sajja South mosque in the Muslim neighbourhood of Mawyagiwah crashed to the ground in the quake, killing 14 children and two adults, locals said.
Many of the dead were from Win Thiri Aung's family, close and extended.
“Our hearts are light. This year, we are not like that. All of our minds are with the dead children. I see their faces in my eyes.
“It is a test from Allah. It is a reminder from him that we need to turn towards him. So we need to pray more.”
Outside the alley leading to the mosques, the Eid worshippers, many wearing the new clothes that are the traditional gift for the festival, lined up on plastic sheeting laid on the road, held in place by bricks.
“We have to pray on the road, feeling sadness and loss,“ said Aung Myint Hussein, chief administrator of the Sajja North mosque.
“We were terrified when we saw the destruction. It feels as if our entire lives have been shattered by this series of tremors and fears.”
Down the street from the mosques, a resident said six people were killed when a dessert shop collapsed, as well as two people in a restaurant across the road.
That is a distant prospect for those who have lost loved ones.
“I am very sad, my son was very excited for Eid,“ the 37-year-old said tearfully. “We got new clothes that we were going to wear together.
“We accept what Allah has planned,“ she said. “Allah only does what’s good and what’s right and we have to accept that.”
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