HAJJ  or HADJ, the Arabic word, meaning literally a " setting out," for the greater See also:

• PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

pilgrimage of Mahommedans to See also:

• MECCA (Arab. Makkah)

Mecca, which takes See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place from the 8th to the loth of the twelfth See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month of the See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan See also:

• YEAR

year; the lesser pilgrimage, called umrah or omra, may be made' to the See also:

• MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque at Mecca at any See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time other than that of the hajj proper, and is also a meritorious See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act . The See also:

• TERM

term hajji or hadji is given to those who have performed the greater pilgrimage . The word hajj is sometimes loosely used of any Mahommedan pilgrimage to a sacred place or See also:

• SHRINE (Lat. scrinium, a case or chest for books, hence a casket; from scribere, to write, Fr. ecrin, Ital. scrigno)

shrine, and is also applied to the.pilgrimages of Christians of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East to the See also:

• HOLY

Holy See also:

• SEPULCHRE, CANONS REGULAR OF THE HOLY
• SEPULCHRE, EASTER
• SEPULCHRE, THE HOLY

Sepulchre at See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem (see MECCA; MAIIOMMEDAN See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

RELIGION) .