Islamic pilgrimage sites

Top pilgrimage sites for Shia or Sunni muslims. Mecca and Medina are generally considered no. 1 and no. 2, several others are vying for spots no. 3 - 5.

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
Ancient Ksour Chinguetti: major site for African pilgrims, principal gathering place for pilgrims of the Maghreb to gather on the way to Mecca
Bolgar Muslim pilgrimage centre (AB ev)
Central Highlands Adam's Peak
Damascus Umayyad Mosque, after Mecca and Medina possibly the world's third most important mosque
Harar Jugol "the fourth holiest city of Islam"
Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
Kairouan Centre of Islamic faith in the Maghreb; "third-holiest site" in Islam
Old City of Jerusalem In terms of the virtue of a religious site, and the value of prayers performed within it, Muslims believe that the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is the third most virtuous mosque
Robben Island Just to the north of the maximum security prison is the Kramat, a monument built in 1967 on the site where Hadjie Mattarm, a Muslim holy man exiled by the VOC from the East Indies to Robben Island in 1744, was buried. He died in 1755 and his tomb became a place of pilgrimage for the Muslim community of the Cape. (AB ev)
Sulaiman-Too Sulaiman-Too is the main holy and pilgrimage site for Muslims of southern Kyrgyzstan and the Ferghana Valley

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