Indonesia forms a new Ministry of Hajj and Umrah to improve services for over 221,000 hajj and 1.5 million umrah pilgrims ...

KPK revealed that 8,400 pilgrims missed the 2024 hajj due to misallocated Saudi quota. Many had waited more than 14 years for ...

The firm has taken on the Diyar Al Khalidiya hotel and is negotiating international branding for the property. Aleph ...

A Saudi company plans to purchase ready-to-eat meals worth US$12 million from an Indonesian producer to meet the needs of Hajj pilgrims in 2026, according to ...

The two acts together are known as Umrah - a lesser pilgrimage which Muslims can perform throughout the year in Makkah. After this first stage of Hajj is completed, pilgrims go to Mina, a tent ...

Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that is required once in a lifetime of every Muslim who can afford it and is physically able to make it. Some Muslims make the ...

The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and must be undertaken at least once by all Muslims with the means. A series of rites are completed over four days in Makkah and its surroundings in ...

Many nations, prophets, apostles, and saints have been performing Hajj in Makkah since then. The Kabah was destroyed by the flood of Noah, but it was rebuilt by Abraham and his son Ishmael.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj as Saudi authorities balance the importance of one of Islam’s key pillars with ...

This year, Saudi Arabia's Hajj Ministry has said between 1,000 and 10,000 people already residing in the kingdom will be allowed to perform the pilgrimage. Two-thirds of those pilgrims will be ...

The next step is to journey to Mina, located about 5 miles from Mecca. There, pilgrims camp together and pray, remaining there until sunrise on the second day of hajj. Then they depart for Mount ...

The hajj pilgrimage, which once drew some 2.5 million Muslims from across the globe, is now almost unrecognizable. It is being scaled back for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic.