April 26, 1979 Ankara Hajj & Umrah
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.
20206 years ago
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.
20224 years ago
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.
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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