The Holy Carpet
The start of the great annual Mohammedan pilgrimage with the holy carpet to the sacred Kaaba shrine in Mecca. The carpet is said to be the actual one on which the Prophet Mohammed prayed and is 1, 300 years old. It is taken on the journey each year, carried in a heavy ornamented housing on the back of a camel
Picture No
10285068
Media ID
46557208
Size
4695px x 3026px
(3.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
early 1910s
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