Albaya Mosque

In the middle of the night in 622 CE, pilgrims from Yathrib slip past Mecca's ruling Quraysh tribe to a mountain pass where Albaya Mosque now stands, coming to swear an oath to Muhammad more binding than the one made the year before. This guide traces who gathered here, the risk they took meeting in secret, and the small Abbasid mosque built on the spot more than a century later. Stand at the narrow pass to picture how easily this meeting could have gone unnoticed.