FEW RARE OLD IMAGES HAJJ SCENE FROM THE PAST...
HAJJ IN OLDEN DAYS...
Historical views of the HAJJ-1907
in pictures Archive pictures of the hajj and life in the holy city of Makkah have been unearthed at the British Library as part of the British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership, which is digitizing half a million pages of content related to the Gulf as part of the development of a brand new online portal, which will be ready next year. These pictures are from an album of Views of Makkah and Madinah by HA Mirza & Sons, containing 13 photographic prints of historical and architectural views of Makkah and Madinah, bound into one volume, c. 1907 |
This image shows the Ka'bah and sanctuary at Makkah. Pilgrims surround the Ka'bah; all are facing it while some are
performing the Tawwaaf – the ritual of circumambulation of the Ka'bah. Buildings
line the foothills of the sacred mountain Jabel Abu Qubays in the
background. At the summit the whitewashed walls and minaret of the Bilal Mosque can clearly be seen...1907
performing the Tawwaaf – the ritual of circumambulation of the Ka'bah. Buildings
line the foothills of the sacred mountain Jabel Abu Qubays in the
background. At the summit the whitewashed walls and minaret of the Bilal Mosque can clearly be seen...1907
The Mosque of Khaif and Minaa. Minaa is a station of the Hajj, where pilgrims camp out on the eighth, 11th, 12th (and some on the 13th) of Zill-Hijjah (the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar), as can be seen in this image. Among the varied tents pitched before the mosque in the middle ground are a wide variety of animals, such as horses, camels and donkeys, some of which are carrying litters – often used to carry women on long journeys throughout the Arabian peninsula
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Mount Arafah.
This image shows pilgrims camping at the Plain of Arafah. In this image, the relatively slow shutter speed captures the ghost images of figures ascending the lower steps to the right of the image. However, many other individual figures are in sharp focus. Most of the pilgrims – male and female – are wearing the two-piece garb, consisting of two white seamless sheets, associated with being in the state of Ihraam... |