The first Islamic stamp issued by the United States Postal Service is displayed in an Iranian museum.
The stamp was first issued in 2005 on Eid-al-Fitr and was reissued on Eid-al-Adha in 2006, Mohammad-Hossein Yazdinejad, the director of the Stamp and Banknote section at the Mashhad’s Astan-e Qods Razavi Museum.
The “Eid Mubarak” stamp is translates as “blessed festival”.
It commemorates the two most important festivals in the Islamic calendar. Eid-al-Adha marks the end of the annual pilgrimage, of Hajj, and Eid-al-Fitr comes at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The stamp was designed by American-born Islamic calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya. The 57-year-old studied calligraphy after he embraced Islam and became one of the best Islamic calligraphers in the United States.
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