Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain to make Mecca pilgrimage documentary
Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain will be embarking on an intensely personal and emotional journey following the Hajj. Hussain, who won the UK cookery show in 2015, will be presenting a two part series for BBC One.
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Meet Motawifs - Saudi religious tour guides for pilgrims from abroad
Motawifs of pilgrims, religious tour guides, have been greeting pilgrims who arrive in Saudi airports and ports and offering services to them in the holy sites for more than eight centuries. Ahmad Halabi, a researcher in Hajj affairs and a Motawif himself, told Al-Arabiya.net that the profession of Motawifs have been inherited by sons and grandsons.
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3 Makkah museums get SCTNH licenses
Director General of the toursim body in Makkah, Faisal Al-Sharif, said SCTNH chief Prince Sultan Bin Salman on Friday approved licenses for the three museums taking the total number of such facilities in the city to seven
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Saudi Health Ministry and WHO in joint monitoring of Hajj pilgrims to prevent epidemic outbreaks
Hajj operations are monitored by a special epidemic control team comprising officials from the Saudi Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure there is no epidemic outbreak
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Muslim pilgrims in Africa start journey to Saudi Arabia for Hajj 2017
Millions of Muslims worldwide are heading to the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. The Saudi Arabia government has increased the quota of pilgrims from all the 178 registered countries with 950,000 pilgrims expected to arrive at Jeddah, 750,000 at Madinah and 100,000 by land and sea.
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Know the Saudi location where Moses lived, worked for a decade
Very few know the place where Prophet Moses lived before he became a prophet of God and was sent on a mission to the Pharaoh. Few visited the site, although the story and the location were mentioned in the Quran.
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More than Ghanaian 6000 Muslim pilgrims to undertake 2017 Hajj
About 6,200 Ghanaian Muslims are expected to perform this year's Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj). The first batch of prospective pilgrims is scheduled to leave Ghana on August 10, 2017, for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj.
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1,104 intending pilgrims will perform 2017 Hajj from Plateau (Nigeria)
A total of 1,104 intending pilgrims from Plateau will perform the 2017 pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Dayyabu Garga, the state Amirul Hajj, has disclosed.
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Almost Half Of 30,200 Malaysian Pilgrims In Holy Land Now
Almost half of the 30,200 Malaysian Haj pilgrims for the 1438 Hijrah season have arrived in Makkah dan Madinah.
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Saudia flies 80,000 Iranian Hajj pilgrims
Saudi Arabian Airlines is flying more than 80,000 Hajj pilgrims from the Iranian cities of Mashhad, Ahwaz and Tabriz.
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Over 69,000 pilgrims arrive at Jeddah airport
More than 69,000 pilgrims have arrived at Jeddah’s King Abdul Aziz International Airport, via 394 flights, since the start of the Hajj season, 4.3 percent more than last year.
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The Kaaba garment to be raised by three meters
The lower portion of the Kaaba covering is to be raised by approximately 3 meters. The raised part is covered with a white cotton fabric of about two meters from the four sides.
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