Once Upon a Time The Road To Makkah

 A karamat on the slopes of the mountain

 Above, pilgrims arrive in Muzdalifah, between Arafat and Mina, in the evening in 1885. In Muzdalifah, pilgrims collect stones that will later be used in Mina in a symbolic Stoning of The Devil Ritual

 Alkaid Touré and his men howl a truck through the mud along the Sahel road

 An Arabic manuscript by al-Hariri of Basra depicting a Mamluk-era Hajj caravan en route to Mecca from the Levant, 1237

 An archive photo of the Kaaba

 Beginning in the 1860s, governments around the world began taking a more systematic approach to the hajj. Fears of epidemics  especially after a cholera outbreak in 1865 killed around 15,000 pilgrims -

 Built upon the order of Ottoman ruler Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Hejaz Railway provided a modern means to transport pilgrims to Mecca and Medina by replacing old camel caravans as well as served to strengthen r

 old photo of how the Mas’aa looked before it became part of the Haram. This is where pilgrims perform the Sa‘ī

 Once Upon a Time on the Road to Mecca

 photo, taken by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje in 1885, shows Sharif Yahya, a relative of the emir of Mecca (a semi autonomous ruler who shared power with the Ottomans

 Pilgrims crowd around the Kaaba in this photo circa 1910. Pilgrims may choose to undertake a journey to Mecca outside the specific period of the hajj. This pilgrimage is known as umrah.

 Pilgrims sit on the deck of a ship heading to Sinai via the Red Sea in the early 20th century.

 Russian Hajj

 The beautiful garb of the ‘kuifies’

 The Story of a Pilgrimage to Hijaz

 This is how Marwa looked before it became part of the Haram.

This photo from around 1910 gives a bird eye view  of the Kaaba with the city of Mecca in the background. Snouck describe the Different Residents of Mecca ranging from those who lived there for "purely religious motives" to those who earned their livelihood from the pilgrims, including guides, merchants, and prostitutes. "Nowhere has the Muslim calendar with This photo shows a wide view of Mecca in the late 1880s. 

 This photo from around 1910 shows men and women walking around the Kaaba. During hajj and umrah, pilgrims perform the tawaf, seven counterclockwise circuits around the Kaaba.

 This photo shows a wide view of

View of the Kaaba, Mecca, by Muhammad Sadiq Bey