It began pilgrims flock to Mina morning hours since Saturday, corresponding to 8-Hijjah 1437 AH, to spend the day perfusion to spend the night in Mina on their way to stand Bmhar Arafah, which is a confirmed Sunnah of the ways of the pilgrimage in Mina, which is the largest city of tents in the world.
The pilgrims will return to Mina to spend to spend four days starting from the tenth day, which falls on Eid al-Adha, so as to throw the three Jamarat, Jamra Aqaba Central Minor anthrax and anthrax only accelerate them.

In a report to Saudi Press Agency SPA, the Mina area Bhdodh legitimacy of 16.8 square kilometers, and is located between Mecca and hairy Muzdalifah just 7 kilometers north-east of the Grand Mosque, the extent of the limits of the sanctuary surrounded by the mountains of the northern and southern sides, does not dwell However, a period of pilgrimage, and is bounded on the one hand Mecca Jamra Aqaba, hand hairy Muzdalifah valley "Mahsr."

The Mina of historic and religious prestige, its prophet Ibrahim threw the peace pebbles him, and slaughtered my Ismail peace be upon him, then the prophet Huda Mohammed, peace be upon him confirmed this act in Farewell and shaved, Muslims and Austin Psonth throwing pebbles and massacred Hdehm and shave.

historical landmarks

Famed Hairy milestones historical ones of the three pillars that are thrown, and its "Alkhaev", which derives its name relative to what came down from thicken mountain mosque and rose for liquefied water, on the southern slope of Mount Mona, and soon from anthrax Minor, has prayed the Prophet peace him and the prophets before him, as stated in the effects.

It is famous historical events that took place in Mina Biata Aqaba first and second, in the year 12 of the migration was the first pledge allegiance 12 men of Aws and Khazraj of the Prophet, followed by the second in a pilgrimage of 13 immigration pledged allegiance to the peace be upon him 73 men and two women from the people of Medina.

At the same site in the northeast of the embers of Aqaba, Brown Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur Allegiance mosque in 144 AH, at the bottom of a mountain, "Thbyr" close to the people of allegiance of Aqaba, a revival of this anniversary, which promised then Ansar Allah bless him and Bmaazrth and triumph.


The largest tent city in the world

The Mina of the largest holy sites, an area estimated at 15% of the mountain slopes of the hairy area, while the remaining space is used to set up the tents, which is one of the largest projects undertaken by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques government to house the pilgrims an area of ​​an estimated 2.5 million square meters in accordance with the specifications check more of security and safety, accommodate 2.6 million pilgrims, and this hairy be the largest tent city in the world.

It includes tents project on the basis of security, safety and the appropriate year of the ocean, where it was manufacture of tissue glass covered with Teflon, known for high ignition resistance, non-emission of toxic, including gases, with air conditioning as well as its resistance to climatic factors, and appropriate form of Islamic character, and its resistance to climatic factors, and the flexibility of their parts the formation and installation.

And provided each tent with machine guns for water works automatically once the detection of heat and water as soon as the emission of these sprinklers are the voice of the issuance of warning device in a tent errant, alert to the danger.

Embers of the 12-storey bridge

And government projects in Mina new Jamarat Bridge Project 950 meters long and consists of a five-storey height of 12 meters per floor, and contains 12 input and 12 way out of the four directions, as well as outlets for emergency based on the grouping of 300 thousand pilgrims per hour, and has an enhanced machine guns conditioning water system to improve the atmosphere and reduce the temperature to 29 degrees Celsius, while added in the fifth level of the bridge large umbrellas covering the three Jamarat sites, in order to enhance the convenience of pilgrims and protect them from the sun strikes.

The bridge project project for the present and the future, which is designed to meet the needs of current and future pilgrims and the possibility piped to 12 floors, as is expected to be used by more than five million pilgrims a year in the future.

With regard to maintaining the security of the pilgrims while they Palmhar to perform Hajj enlisted leadership of Hajj security forces in Mina all energies mechanism and human security men to implement escalation of pilgrims to Mina plan to streamline and facilitate the escalation process in front of convoys of pilgrims and provide security and safety for them.

The plan also focused on preventing the entry of small cars to the holy sites and to allow large trucks to transport the General Syndicate for cars and transport companies to transport pilgrims to and from the holy sites.