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Sep 5 – Sep 6, 2026

Atlanta Halal World Fest 2026 at Gwinnett Place Mall

Atlanta Halal World Fest returns September 5–6, 2026 at Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth with 120-plus fully halal vendors and a festival app for tickets and maps.

Duluth, Georgia · 2100 Pleasant Hill Road

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Atlanta Halal World Fest runs Saturday and Sunday, September 5–6, 2026 at Gwinnett Place Mall, 2100 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth. The Suhoor Festival team lists 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. both days on the current homepage, though a July festival guide posted 4:00–11:00 p.m. Confirm final hours on suhoorfestival.com before you go.

This is the Labor Day daytime counterpart to the team's overnight Ramadan Suhoor Festival. Organizers promise more than 120 fully halal vendors and say last year's edition drew more than 20,000 guests. Expect a dense food-and-dessert floor, artisan stalls, and a crowd that treats Gwinnett Place like a temporary world market spanning South Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and African Atlanta kitchens.

The Suhoor Festival app handles tickets, live maps, and skip-the-line tools. Download it before you circle the mall looking for a paper booth map. Free on-site parking is part of the published logistics; ticket prices live on the World Fest checkout rather than a static press page.

Who this is for: families who want a halal-certified food crawl without guessing which stall fits dietary rules, and anyone stacking Gwinnett Place weekends through September. Skip it if you need a single-cuisine cultural stage show; JapanFest and the Korean Festival bring ticketed programming two weeks later at the same mall corridor.

Gwinnett Place sits at Pleasant Hill Road and I-85, the anchor for Duluth's immigrant retail strip. Halal World Fest shares the mall footprint with later September festivals, so parking patterns repeat: arrive early Saturday afternoon or expect a long lot walk.

The Suhoor Festival team built its brand on overnight Ramadan markets; World Fest translates that vendor density into a Labor Day family format where every stall is halal-certified. That matters in a metro where halal diners otherwise map restaurants one by one across Clarkston, Buford Highway, and Gwinnett.

Atlanta's September arc starts here Labor Day weekend, then moves to Dragon Boat at Lake Lanier September 12 and the Duluth culture doubleheader September 19–20. Buford Highway's FEAST the prior Friday is the seated South Asian opener if you want a quieter corridor night first.

Our take: Saturday late afternoon for the fullest vendor floor, Sunday if Saturday rains. Budget for food cash and use the app map once inside.

When: September 5–6, 2026 (currently listed 2:00–9:00 p.m. both days; confirm on site)
Where: Gwinnett Place Mall, 2100 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth, GA

Tickets and hours on suhoorfestival.com.

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