SIX CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED HAJJ CERTIFICATES AND SOUVENIRS
Ottoman Provinces and Mecca, Hijaz, 20th century

Comprising six colour-printed certificates of the pilgrimage to the Muslim sacred sites, each slightly different but overall with the same composition of a large panoramic and three-quarter view of the interior of the Masjid al-Haram with Ka’ba at its centre, some certificates featuring the main congregational mosque and views of other sacred sites, and the minbar from which the Prophet gave his first sermon, one view dated 1335 AH (1916), the largest approximately 34.4cm x 44.5cm.