Muslims all around the globe visit Holy cities of Makkah and Madina for Holy pilgrimage from around the globe. Before the boom in the air industry travelling from one place to another was very difficult.
These are the pictures of Hajj of 1953, at that time only few thousand Muslims from all over the world were able to reach the remote area of Arabia.
Most of the people travelled through ships and ferries while some travelled from small aircrafts. For travelling within cities old transport cars were used.
The city of Makkah at that was a small city with only few thousand population.
The Mosque and the area around Kaaba was not renovated after Ottoman caliphate.
The entrance gate and minarets of Ottoman styles can be seen in these pictures.
As the crowd was not huge people were allowed to enter the Kaaba and pray inside it. Less crowd meant it was easier to make Tawaf.
At this time the black Americans were still facing discrimination in USA, the black natives of South Africa was still fighting for basic human rights in South Africa while even in that time the Muslim world was not facing any racial problem.
Even in this part of world Coca Cola reached to capture the market. Because the Haji were ready to pay any price in that hot Arabian days to get some cold drink.
