Saudi Arabia restores limit on Egyptian pilgrims to Mecca to 2013 levels
Saudi Arabia has restored the limit on Egyptian pilgrims to Mecca to its 2013 levels, Egypt's Minister of Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa announced on Thursday. Egypt's quota for pilgrimage visas this year will be raised to 87,000, compared to 62,000 last year, Gomaa said. Egyptians comprise one of the top nationalities which seeks to perform the Hajj to Mecca. In 2011, Saudi Arabia began the largest expansion project of the Grand Mosque in Mecca to raise its capacity to two million pilgrims, and in 2013 it cut the number of visas for those seeking to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca by 20% due to the expansion. The project is due to be completed in 2020.
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