Aidiladha has passed us by and we have witnessed the unforgettable event, and seen countless images, on TV and other media. Here we see something different - stunning long-exposure images of a whirl of pilgrims circling the Kaabah.
Stunning Long Exposures of Muslim Pilgrims Circling a Sacred Site for Hajj
By Alice, My Modern Met, 28 October 2012.
By Alice, My Modern Met, 28 October 2012.
Hajj is one of the world's largest religious pilgrimages where 2 to 3 million Muslims from all around the world travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birth place of Islam. One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires that every Muslim who can afford to do so take part in the Hajj pilgrimage at least once in his or her lifetime. While in Mecca, for five days, they perform a series of rituals. One of these requires that each person walk counter-clockwise seven times around the Kaabah, the most sacred site in Islam. It's a cube-shaped building that has the Grand Mosque built around it, which can accommodate up to four million people.
This year, the Hajj pilgrimage is observed from October 24th to October 29th. According to official figures, over three million registered pilgrims took part in this year’s event.
Photographers Hassan Anmar of AP Photo and Amr Abdallah Dalsh of Reuters have taken some stunning long-exposures that show Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaabah and pray at the Grand Mosque. Not only do they give us an idea of what the movement and flow of the Muslim pilgrims around the Kaabah look like, they show us the shocking scale of this incredibly important religious event.
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