The Largest Camp In The World

Each year, for five days, the town of Mina in Saudi Arabia turns to become the biggest camp in the world.

Amusing Planet

Mina – is a small town situated in a large valley in Makkh province, in western Saudi Arabia. The city is located only 8 km east of the Holy City of Mecca, and is a kind of hotel for the many pilgrims who come here at a time of great celebration for the Hajj Muslims.

The camp covers an area of ​​20 square kilometers - the size of a small country town. It exists only for five days while the feast lasts, and then the tent is dismantled and transferred to storage until the next year.

India Today

During the Hajj in the valley there are over 100,000 air-conditioned tents, which can accommodate more than 3 million pilgrims! The tent is a kind of tent 8 by 8 meters made of fiberglass coated with Teflon. Such materials are selected not only because they are designed to prevent the possibility of fire.

Earlier tents were made of cotton, but when in 1997 suddenly appeared a fire, it killed 350 pilgrims.

The whole camp is divided into several groups depending on the country. The tents have a unique number and color. Each group has its own attached kitchen, bathroom and sanitary facilities.

theindependentbd.com

In recent years, the state has invested significant investments in the city to make the accommodation of pilgrims during the Hajj as comfortable as possible. The novelty of recent years has become a modern fire extinguishing system, which is designed to prevent a repeat of the tragedy of 1997.