Pictures From Annual Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca

Picture It: A Room of Her Own

November 12, 2010

by Colleen Barrett 7

A woman watches a prayer service for Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. About 2.5 million Muslims are traveling to the city this year.

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7 Comments

2 years 27 weeks

OMG...enough with the Muslim-bashing on gender. I've been to Hajj twice and there's no "all-male service." Lately, all the articles on Islam have been uneducated, unresearched gender topics dripping with bias. Yeah, there's huge problems, I'm the first one to talk about it...but you've been pointing them out where they're not. In these pics, the people with hats are men. And the people with scarves/veils? Uh yeah, those are women...did someone even look at the pics before that putting up the headline?

zeze 2 years 27 weeks

Gorgeous picture and I believe it is men and women...

Emily Co 2 years 27 weeks

Wow, these are really beautiful!

Pistil 2 years 27 weeks

Wow, I thought the first picture looked like stained glass.

snarkypants 2 years 27 weeks

the pictures are quite beautiful, but seriously. are these articles about the muslim world even researched?

snarkypants 2 years 27 weeks

the pictures are quite beautiful, but seriously. are these articles about the muslim world even researched?

2 years 27 weeks

Hajj is not an all-male service, women and men pray together during hajj. These are beautiful pictures, and if you pay attention you can see women covered in veil among men.