Pilgrimage Center "Idel Haj" send this year's Hajj pilgrims about 4 thousand

Interregional pilgrim center Idel Hajj "in the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Tatarstan is ready to send to the hajj in Saudi Arabia this year about 4 thousand of pilgrims from various regions of Russia - almost twice as much as a year earlier, told RIA Novosti on Thursday, General Director of the Center Ayaz Mingaleev.

Hajj - the pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam, a special ritual worship of God, the fifth pillar of Islam. His commit time in my life - strict duty of a Muslim.

"This year we were given a quota of 3 thousand people, it is chosen entirely. More about 1 thousands of pilgrims, we plan to send at the expense of additional quota. Center "Idel Haj has been operating throughout Russia - we have more than 30 representatives in the regions, as well as two full-fledged branch in Moscow and Bashkortostan. This year we are working with pilgrims from Astrakhan, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen, St. Petersburg, Ulyanovsk, Penza region, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, Bashkortostan, Yakutia and, of course, Tatarstan ", - said Mingaleev.

General Director Center Idel Haj reported that for the convenience of pilgrims are several items to send - from Kazan, Moscow, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg and Dagestan. The next year, possibly in the hajj will be going directly from Samara. To accompany the pilgrims formed Haj mission of 28 people, including representatives of the center "Idel Hajj, the administrative staff involved in organizing the hajj, nurses. For every 40 pilgrims has one leader who speaks Tatar, Russian and Arabic, which will help to solve all questions.

"We contracted with a private clinic in Mecca, where pilgrims will be able to get help and in-patient treatment as appropriate. Last year, medical care received 12 of our pilgrims, in 2007 - nine people, "- said Mingaleev.

The interviewee added that the pilgrim center and this year did not depart from tradition and gives the pilgrims not only custom-tailored set of clothes made of cotton (for men - white and gray, for women - light green), and two travel bags. In addition, the complex includes a necessary set of things - comfortable neckband and belt bags, bed sheet, namazlyk (prayer mat), medical bandages.

"The new bags are yellow, for it would be easy to identify our pilgrims," - he said.

The cost of the hajj this year is from 75 to 145 thousand rubles depending on the conditions of residence, route, food, value-added services. Last year, the hajj pilgrims treated in 90 thousand rubles.
The pilgrims will depart from Kazan on November 5.

In 2008, the center "Idel-Haj" organized for the 2,2 thousands of hajj pilgrims from Tatarstan and other Russian regions in 2007, it benefited by 1,55 thousand palomnikov.Ezhegodno from Russia to Saudi Arabia, traveling more than 20 thousand Muslims. Most Russian goes to Hajj pilgrims from Dagestan, in the past year hajj made 13 thousand people of this republic. Also, large groups of Muslims travel from Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Chechnya.