Over 60m worshippers visit Islam’s two holiest sites in Muharram
More than 60 million people visited the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina during the month of Muharram in the Islamic year 1447 AH, according to the General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque.
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Muhammad Ali Bandial