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12 October
Monday Hijri 1 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
By the Gregorian calendar 12 October
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Upcoming anniversaries
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195522 October
First Saudi expansion of the Prophet's Mosque inaugurated
The first Saudi expansion of the Prophet's Mosque, begun under King Abdulaziz in 1949, was inaugurated by King Saud on 22 October 1955 in a ceremony attended by several Muslim heads of state. The work enlarged the mosque to 16,326 square metres.
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20201 November
First pilgrims from abroad arrive for Umrah after the pandemic halt
On 1 November 2020, the third phase of the Umrah resumption began, and the first pilgrims from abroad in about seven months landed at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. The first flight, from Pakistan, carried 38 pilgrims; the second, from Indonesia, carried 224.