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Medina to Mecca: High-Speed Train Eases Travel to Hajj
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August 10, 2019
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0:37Now PlayingFor the first time, new high-speed rail networks are making travel to Mecca easier for the approximately 2 million Muslims en route to the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
The Islamic hajj pilgrimage draws people from around the world to Saudi Arabia each year. The crowds, squeezed shoulder to shoulder in prayer five times a day, fill the city of Mecca and surrounding areas to perform a number of physically demanding and intricate rites.
The five-day-long hajj is required of all Muslims with the means to perform it once in a lifetime. Through intense worship and repentance, its goal is remission of past sins and drawing Muslims closer to God.
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