Jamaraat Bridge

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The Jamarat Bridge (Arabic جسر الجمرات, DMG Ǧisr al - Ǧamarāt, English transliteration Jamarat or Jamaraat ) is a 5-storey pedestrian bridge. It is located in Mina in Saudi Arabia.

The building is no bridge in the classical sense, which crosses a river or a road to connect two locations together. Rather, it is the place where the pilgrims three to four days to perform several symbolic Teufelssteinigungen during the Hajj. Here, the pilgrim must each 7 stones at three enormous columns, called Jamarat, throwing. Previously, these resulted in multiple fatalities as a result of mass panic:

Despite enhanced security measures after 2004, in 2006, again to a stampede. After that, the old bridge was demolished and started the construction of befindendlichen already planning new bridge. Since its completion in 2009, it is possible to throw a total of five levels of stones at the Jamarat. In these works the Jamarat were themselves changed. Before it was "classic" stone pillars in the shape of an obelisk. However, since the pilgrims threw from all sides stones at the pillars, even pilgrims were met on the other side accidentally. Furthermore no longer offered the small obelisk enough wall space for the many pilgrims. The new Jamarat are therefore stretched elliptical in plan to more than 20 meters. The capacity of the new bridge should be at 250,000 people per hour.