During Hajj, Mina turns into an enormous tent city housing millions of pilgrims
S. M. Amin/Saudi Aramco World/PADIA
On the first official day of the pilgrimage, the millions of pilgrims that have now gathered travel from Mecca to Mina, a small village east of the city. There they spend the day and night in enormous tent cities, praying, reading the Quran, and resting for the next day.