HAJ

«Haj is the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the month of Dhu al - Hijja (the 12^th and last month of the Islamic calendar). A pilgrimage is a journey or search moral or spiritual significance. Typically, a pilgrimage is a journey to a shrine or their location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith like: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their calling or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to have lived or be housed».
(Iulia Arhip)

«The pilgrimage to Mecca in an obligatory act that every Muslim must do at least one time in his life. This is one of the five pillars of Islam, and every believer, if he is responsible and in good health and financial status, must go there. This pilgrimage is called Hajj and it lasts five days. At the end of this ‘travel’ every believer is purified by all his sins; after this experience the believer is called Hajji and his life must be more devoted. Also women can keep part in this pilgrimage. Before forty-five years of age woman must be accompanied by a direct relative. When woman is over forty-five years of age can leave alone to Mecca. The sense of this pilgrimage is very important, it is a gathering of Muslims (indeed, if you aren’t Muslim, you can’t take part). It is also an occasion for social integration; the principal subject of this meeting place is peace, you feel the deep sense of fraternity that represent this religion; everyone do the same things in the same moment, everybody is wearing the same kind of clothes, praying in the same way, and everyone talks about themselves and their problem, so you feel that you are not alone». (Alessandra Caporusso)

The Black Arch
The artists
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Jeddah
Mecca
Venice airport
Marco Polo