Jamaraat Bridge

This guide to the Jamaraat Bridge in Mina follows the ritual of Rami al-Jamarat, where pilgrims throw stones at three walls in remembrance of Ibrahim's threefold refusal of the devil. It traces the bridge's dangerous single-level design, built in 1963, through the stampedes that killed hundreds in 1994 and 2004, and the crowd crush of January 2006 that killed over three hundred people in minutes. The ritual itself dates back to Ibrahim's three throws of seven stones each, a gesture every pilgrim repeats after collecting pebbles at Muzdalifah the night before.