This week was the festival of Eid al-Adha that marks the end of the annual hajj.

Specially built to handle pilgrims to take part in the rituals associated with the annual Hajj, it offers many facilities and can accommodate 80,000 travelers at the same time.

Cairene merchants were instrumental in bringing goods to the barren Hejaz, especially during the annual hajj to Mecca.

The effort started on the festival of Id al-Adha, which comes at the end of the annual hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca.

Some three million pilgrims go to Mecca for the annual hajj.

This week's issue of the Islamic Banner, the party's own Islamic newspaper, was devoted almost entirely to the annual hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca.

As governor, he plays a major role in managing the annual Hajj in Makkah, the world's largest religious pilgrimage.

In 755, al-Fadl led the pilgrim caravan destined for Mecca and Medina for the annual hajj.

For years, more than 200,000 Indonesians have made the annual hajj, the pilgrimage to Islam's holy sites in Saudi Arabia.

Some names refer to the fact that the holiday occurs after the culmination of the annual Hajj.