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Hajj

June 2024

  • people walk in a mosque

    Maryland couple among 1,300 who died on pilgrimage in sweltering Mecca

  • Dense crowd of pilgrims, some holding umbrellas and parasols

    At least 1,300 hajj pilgrims died during extreme heat, Saudi Arabia says

  • A Muslim pilgrim prays at dawn on Mount Arafat during the annual hajj pilgrimage.

    Egypt to prosecute travel agents for ‘fraudulent’ hajj trips

  • Pilgrims in Mecca circle the Kaaba with buildings behind

    One man’s desperate search for wife as more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die in extreme heat

  • More than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca

  • Search for missing pilgrims continues after hajj heat deaths

  • More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C

  • At least 14 pilgrims die during hajj pilgrimage amid soaring temperatures

June 2023

  • Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to protect themselves from the heat as they gather on Mount Arafat during the 2023 Hajj pilgrimage

    Thousands suffer heat stress on hajj pilgrimage as temperatures reach 48C

    People struggling in the swelter was a common sight, especially after day-long outdoor prayers at Mount Arafat
  • SAUDI-RELIGION-ISLAM-HAJJ<br>In this elevated view from a hotel overlooking the Grand Mosque, Muslim worshippers and pilgrims gather around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, in the holy city of Mecca on June 22, 2023, as they arrive for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (Photo by Rania SANJAR / AFP) (Photo by RANIA SANJAR/AFP via Getty Images)

    The road to Mecca is fraught with challenges – but there’s nothing like the hajj pilgrimage to turn hearts

    Ali Hammoud
    When pilgrims don the hajj attire, they discard more than their clothes. Nationality, race and socioeconomic status are tossed to the wayside
  • Muslim pilgrims pray on Mount Arafat

    Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia – in pictures

    Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims have crowded on to Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia. The ritual is the high point of the annual hajj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam, which officials say could be the biggest on record after three years of Covid restrictions

July 2022

  • The Grand Mosque during the annual haj pilgrimage, in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

    Saudi citizen arrested after non-Muslim journalist sneaks into Mecca

    Gil Tamary of Israel’s Channel 13 sparked online fury after he filmed himself in Islam’s holiest city despite a ban on non-Muslims

June 2022

  • Muslim pilgrims praying at the Kaaba.

    ‘A nightmare’: British Muslims left stranded by Saudi hajj booking system

  • Prospective pilgrims begin their worship in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

    British Muslim travel agencies in uproar over Saudi hajj changes

June 2021

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    Saudi Arabia bans foreigners from hajj over Covid concerns

    Annual pilgrimage will be restricted to 60,000 vaccinated adults from within the kingdom

April 2021

  • Worshippers maintaining social distance at the Grand Mosque in Mecca

    Mecca to accept only ‘immunised’ pilgrims from Ramadan

    Worshippers must be vaccinated against Covid or have recovered from the virus, say SaudisCoronavirus – latest updates

July 2020

  • Hundreds of Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, as they observe social distancing.

    Scaled-down hajj begins in coronavirus era – in pictures

  • People stand near the Kaaba at the almost empty Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca

    Global report: downsized hajj pilgrimage begins amid Covid-19 restrictions

June 2020

  • Muslim pilgrims at the Grand Mosque in Mecca

    Global report: Covid-19 restricts hajj and Germany locks down district

    Pilgrimage to Islamic holy sites usually attracts 2.5m visitors; about 360,000 Germans face new restrictions

April 2020

  • Worshippers walk around the Ka’bah in Mecca’s Grand Mosque

    Hajj pilgrimage could be cancelled because of coronavirus

    Saudi authorities pave way for first closure of annual Islamic event in Mecca since 1798
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