haj

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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

Saudi Arabia will remove COVID-19 restrictions for the 2023 haj season and host pre-pandemic numbers of pilgrims, the kingdom's ministry of haj and umrah said on Monday.

From Reuters • Jan. 10, 2023

About 19 million also took part annually in the umrah, another form of pilgrimage to Mecca which - unlike the haj - can be carried out at any time of the year, before the pandemic.

From Reuters • Jan. 9, 2023

April 1998: One hundred and nineteen Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the haj in Saudi Arabia.

From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2022

Hadj, Hajj, haj, n. a Mohammedan pilgrimage to Mecca or Medina.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various