More than two million Muslims begin Hajj pilgrimage

More than two million Muslims from around the globe have converged in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to start this year’s Hajj pilgrimage.

 

 

More than two million Muslims from around the globe have converged in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to start this year’s Hajj pilgrimage.

The annual Hajj pilgrimage started on Sunday.

The gathering in one place of Muslims from across the globe is seen as a means of sending across the message of Muslim coexistence to the entire world.

“It’s the dream of every Muslim to come here to Mecca,” Frenchman Soliman Ben Mohri, a 53-year-old Muslim, said. “It’s the ultimate journey.”

Each and every able-bodied Muslim, male or female, is required to complete the Hajj pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime if they also have the sufficient financial capacity to do so.