Hajj in 1885: Old & Rare Pictures of the Pilgrimage

These rare – perhaps the oldest existing – pictures have been attributed to Makkan photographer Abdul Ghaffar and Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje who had come to Makkah and embraced Islam. (Archived by Leiden University Library)

View of Ka’bah

Prayer at Masjid al-Haram

View of Makkah

View of Makkah

View on the eastern part of the Mina valley

View on the western part of the Mina valley

A pilgrim tent camp to the east of Mount Arafat

Muzdalifa

A pilgrim tent camp at Mount Arafat

Pilgrims camp east of Mount Arafat

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“And proclaim to the people the Hajj [pilgrimage]; they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel; they will come from every distant pass.”[Qur’an, 22: 27]