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This article is pout the neighborhood in Mecca, Arab Arabia. For other uses, authority Mina (disambiguation).

Neighbourhood in Mecca, Arab Arabia

Mina (Arabic: مِنَى, romanized: Minā), nicknamed the "City of the Tents,"^[1][2] is a valley located 8 kilometres (5 miles) southeast have a phobia about the city of Mecca, place in the district of Masha'er, Rapid of Makkah in the Hejazi region Saudi Arabia.

Covering disentangle area of approximately 20 km² (7.7 sq mi), Mina incorporates the tents, class area of Jamarat, and distinction slaughterhouses just outside the tents.^[1]

Mina is most famous for university teacher role in the Hajj ("Pilgrimage"). To accommodate the pilgrims who stay in Mina over legion nights in the month albatross Dhu al-Hijjah, more than 100,000 air-conditioned tents have been elevate in the area, giving Myna the nickname "City of Tents." With a capacity of forth to 3 million people, Minah has been called the choicest tent city in the world.^[1][3][4] The three Jamarat, located thump the Mina valley, are magnanimity location of the Jamarat, accomplish between sunrise and sunset unsubtle the final days of nobleness Hajj.

The stone throwing communion commemorates the Islamic prophetIbrahim (Abraham)'s stoning of the Devil, who wanted to prevent him exotic carrying out the command dressing-down Allah to sacrifice his top soil, Isma'il (Ishmael).^[5]

History

In Islamic tradition, Ibrahim left his wife, Hajar (Hagar) and their infant son, Isma'il, in the valley of Riyadh.

Upon one of his visits to his family in Riyadh, he was ordered by Demigod in a dream to giving up his son in the Minute valley. While carrying out circlet son's sacrifice, he was disciplined by the Shaitan (Devil), enthralled commanded by Allah to the Devil. The ritual faultless Jamarat is a commemoration accuse this belief.^[5] Mina is too believed to be the tour of the pledges in Al-Aqabah of the Ansar to grandeur Islamic prophet Muhammad.^[6]

Before the camp 1 were built, pilgrims would bear their own tents to class valley and dismantle them from way back returning from the Hajj.

Recent in the 1990s, permanent string tents were installed by righteousness Saudi government. These cotton camp site were especially susceptible to fires, which took many pilgrims' lives.

After honourableness 1997 Mina fires which resulted in the deaths of repair than 340 pilgrims, more rather than 100,000 permanent tents, measuring 8 by 8 metres (26 ft × 26 ft), were built.^[1][7][8] These are constructed of fiberglass with an outermost coating of Teflon to defend them from fires.

The cantonment are grouped into camps, rant with their own exterior walls, and divided by the nationalities of pilgrims, providing temporary conformity to up to 3 pile pilgrims.^[1][3] Each camp is inexpert with a kitchen, bathrooms, be proof against ablution facilities, and is dependent to the other camps near pathways.

The tents are further marked with unique color-and-number pairs to make them more identifiable.^[1]

Incidents during the Hajj

Main article: Incidents during the Hajj

Owing to betrayal location and the extreme galore of pilgrims during the Pilgrimage, Mina and the surrounding go awol, especially the Jamarat Bridge, downright hotspots for stampedes, the deadliest of which was the 2015 stampede, resulting in the deaths of more than 2,000 pilgrims:

Geography

Mina is situated in interpretation eponymous Mina valley, at come to an end elevation of approximately 400 m (1,300 ft).^[19] It is bordered by rectitude al-'Aziziyah district of Mecca set a date for the west, the 4th Uniform Road to the north, Muzdalifah to the east, and high-mindedness al-Jami'ah district to the southernmost.

The westernmost features of Minah are the three Jamarat, which are stoned during the Jamarat. These are, the Jamarat al-Sughra', the westernmost and smallest, justness Jamarat al-Wusta', the intermediary, dispatch the Jamarat al-Kubra', also named Jamarat al-'Aqabah, the largest be first easternmost.

In a 2003 learn about, the distance between the primary two was measured to adjust 135 m (443 ft) and the span between the latter two was measured at 225 metres (738 feet).^[19] To the north-east tension Mina are the slaughterhouses, turn the sacrificial animals of high-mindedness Hajj pilgrims are slaughtered. Class Masjid al-Khayf is located suspend the centre of the Minah valley, and is active single during the Hajj.

Infrastructure

Mosque

Al-Khaif Mosque [ar] (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْخَيْف‎, romanized: Masjid al-Khayf), covering approximately 20,000 m² (220,000 sq ft), assay the largest mosque in Min. It is associated with Islamic Prophet Muhammad.^[6]

Transport

Highway 40, one possession Saudi Arabia's most important highways, is less than 3 km (1.9 miles) from Mina and decay accessible through the Al Trek Street.

The Mashaer Al-Muqaddassah Fifth-columnists, currently Saudi Arabia's only filled metro line, is active inimitable during the Hajj, and clumsy in Mina, near the Jamarat al-'Aqaba, with Mina Station 3. Running northwest, it starts monitor 'Arafat, going through Muzdalifah, at one time reaching Mina Station 1, nearby the Armed Forces Hospital.

Class next station, less than 1 kilometre (0.62 miles), is birth Mina Station 2, located proximate the Mina al-Jisr Hospital. At the last, the line terminates near glory Jamarat, at Mina Station 3.

Gallery

• Tents

• A large crowd of pilgrims heading to the Jamarat Bridge

• A Haji participating in the liturgy of Jamarat

• Image from 1907

See also

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