On this day in history
7 April
Tuesday Hijri 19 Shawwal 1447 AH
By the Gregorian calendar 7 April
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By the Hijri calendar 19 Shawwal 1447 AH
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Upcoming anniversaries
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20228 April
Plan to expand Quba Mosque tenfold announced
On 8 April 2022, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the King Salman Project to expand Quba Mosque in Medina, regarded as Islam's first mosque. The plan aims to enlarge it about tenfold to 50,000 square metres, with capacity for 66,000 worshippers.
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20229 April
One million pilgrims, including from abroad, allowed for Hajj 2022
On 9 April 2022, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced that one million pilgrims from inside and outside the kingdom would be allowed to perform that year's Hajj. Pilgrims had to be under 65 and vaccinated, and those from abroad needed a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours.
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182325 April
Birth of Sultan Abdülmecid, who rebuilt the Prophet's Mosque
Sultan Abdülmecid was born in Istanbul on 25 April 1823. In late 1849 he decided to rebuild the Prophet's Mosque in Medina; the work, led by a commission under the architect Abdülhalim Efendi, was completed in 1861.
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197926 April
Turkey entrusts all Hajj organisation to its Presidency of Religious Affairs
On 26 April 1979, Turkey's Council of Ministers, by Decision No. 7/17.439, assigned the entire organisation of the Hajj to the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). Diyanet had begun organising Hajj in 1977 with the Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, and the two ran it together from 1979 to 1988.