July 30, 2020 Arafat Hajj & Umrah
On 30 July 2020, in a Hajj scaled down by COVID-19 measures, masked pilgrims, all citizens or residents of Saudi Arabia, stood at Arafat. Officials said between 1,000 and 10,000 would take part, compared with about 2.5 million people at Arafat the year before.
196363 years ago
On 23 February 1963, Decision No. 6/1485 annulled Turkey's 1955 regulation that had limited Hajj travel to sea and air. Under the new regulation that replaced it, pilgrims from Turkey were once again free to travel to the Hajj overland.
193789 years ago
On 22 May 1937, by decision of the Medina council, the practice of charging an entry fee to visitors of the city was abolished. Though not always applied, the fee dated back to the Abbasid era.
725Hijri
On 2 Rajab 725 AH (1325), the 22-year-old Ibn Battuta set out from his hometown of Tangier with the intention of performing Hajj. This pilgrimage journey became the first step of the celebrated traveller's long voyages.
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