haj

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Saudi Arabia is preparing to host some 2.6 million pilgrims next week for the 2023 haj season after removing all COVID-19 restrictions for the first time since 2019.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

Balloons and haj slogans in Farsi decorated the Al-Mozn hotel where Hossaini, and other pilgrims from the Iranian city of Shiraz, stayed in Mecca.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

Jan 2006: Three hundred and sixty-two Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death at the eastern entrance of the Jamarat Bridge when pilgrims jostle to perform the haj stoning ritual.

From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2022

About 20 years after that, he took his first haj — the pilgrimage to Mecca — aboard a British Airways de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2022

Ni estos kvin pleje haj ili sep malpleje = We shall be five at most and they seven at least.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George