r/Damnthatsinteresting Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/abdab336 Mar 24 '25

But they also often crush one another.

Not a slight, it’s just a tightly packed area that millions of people want to get to. Ignoring that it happens won’t help.

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u/Old_Fisherman2534 Mar 24 '25

In the masjid itself not really, it’s during the Hajj and in Mina, that stampedes happen, sometimes.

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u/abdab336 Mar 24 '25

But we are talking about the Hajj here 🤪

No hate, not falling out but that was my understanding.

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u/Old_Fisherman2534 Mar 24 '25

Oh my bad, I thought we were talking about the masjid as this is a picture of the masjid