SAUDI ARABIA: THE ANNUAL HAJ HOLY PILGRIMAGE FOR THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY WORLDWIDE HAS BEGUN
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SAUDI ARABIA: THE ANNUAL HAJ HOLY PILGRIMAGE FOR THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY WORLDWIDE HAS BEGUN
- Title: SAUDI ARABIA: THE ANNUAL HAJ HOLY PILGRIMAGE FOR THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY WORLDWIDE HAS BEGUN
- Date: 4th February 2003
- Summary: (EU) JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA (FEBRUARY 4, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV AIRCRAFTS ARRIVING AT JEDDAH'S CITY AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. TV/SV/SLV OF PILGRIMS ARRIVING AT THE AIRPORT, LUGGAGE BEING X-RAYED BY SECURITY AND PILGRIMS WAITING AND GATHERING IN GROUPS (7 SHOTS) 0.58 3. SV IRANIAN FLAG ON THE WALL 1.00 4. SV IRANIAN PILGRIMS 1.08 5. SLV PILGRIM IN A WHEELCHAIR 1.14 6. SLV CHILD PILGRIM 1.19 7. SLV/SV OF PILGRIMS BOARDING BUSES THAT WILL TAKE THEM TO THE MECCA (4 SHOTS) 1.42 (EU) MECCA, THE GRAND MOSQUE, SAUDI ARABIA (FEBRUARY 4, 2003) (REUTERS) 8. TOP VIEW OF THE GRAND MOSQUE SURROUNDED BY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS (2 SHOTS) 1.57 9. TV OF PILGRIMS CIRCLING THE KAABA SHRINE (2 SHOTS) 2.11 10. SLV MORE PILGRIMS ARRIVING WALKING THROUGH THE GATES TO THE GRAND MOSQUE 2.20 11. SLV/LV PILGRIMS PRAYING (3 SHOTS0 2.36 12. SLV PILGRIMES WALKING 2.41 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 19th February 2003 12:00
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- Location: MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA
- Country: Saudi Arabia
- Reuters ID: LVADW92V48FMVQD9SQJCNOVNGTY5
- Story Text: The annual Haj holy pilgrimage for the Muslim community
worldwide has begun.
More than a million Muslims arrived in Saudi Arabia's
Holy city of Mecca on Tuesday (February 4) the eve of the
annual Haj pilgrimage, the world's largest Muslim gathering.
Tens of thousands of men in white clothes and women in
veils circled the cubed shaped Kaaba at the heart of the
city's Grand Mosque in the prelude to Haj, a journey in the
footsteps of the prophet Mohammed.
During the Haj, pilgrims will recreate symbolic actions
taught by prophet Mohamed and performed by large numbers of
Muslims every year for the past 14th centuries, gathering to
seek purification and spiritual renewal.
Saudi Arabia grants Haj visas to countries according to
strict quotas, but it has increased the number over the past
decades after a multibillion dollar extension of the Grand
Mosque and facilities at other pilgrimage sites.
Every able bodied adult Muslim who can afford the trip must
perform the Haj at least once in a lifetime.
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