May 22, 1937 Medine Hajj & Umrah
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.
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.
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.
197947 years ago
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.
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