April 25, 1823 İstanbul People
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.
20242 years ago
On 24 June 2024, the key of the Kaaba was handed over in a ceremony in Mecca to Abdulwahab bin Zain Al-Abidin Al-Shaibi of the Shaibi family. Succeeding the late Dr. Saleh Al-Shaibi, who had died days earlier, he became the 78th custodian of the Kaaba in the Islamic era.
1918108 years ago
Sultan Abdülhamid II, who had the Hejaz Railway built from Damascus to Medina, died at Beylerbeyi Palace in Istanbul on 10 February 1918. Telegraph lines reaching the Hejaz had also been laid during his reign.
1082Hijri
The Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi set out from Istanbul on his Hajj journey on 12 Muharram 1082 AH (21 May 1671). Joining the pilgrim caravan from Damascus, he devoted the ninth volume of his Seyahatname to Medina, Mecca, the Prophet's Mosque, the Kaaba and the rites of Hajj.
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