from Wikipedia
Mina is a location situated some 5 kilometres to the east of
the Islamic holy city of Mecca (Makkah) in Saudi Arabia. It stands on the road
from Mecca's city centre to the Hill of Arafat.
Tents at Mina
Mina is best known for the role it plays during the annual
Hajj pilgrimage, when its tent cities provide temporary accommodation to
millions of visiting pilgrims. In the valley of Mina is the Jamarat Bridge, the
location of the Stoning of the Devil ritual, performed between sunrise and
sunset on the last day of the Hajj. Mina is where Pilgrims would go to stone
where the devil was as this is where it is said that Ibrahim stoned the devil
that came between him and the command that Allah set him.
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