Since the announcement of the document reception for the next season of Hajj, the Caucasian Moslems Department (CMD) has received about 300 applications from persons desiring to visit Hajj, Trend reports quoting CMD.
CMD has already started registering documents and solving the questions related with pilgrimage. According to the information obtained from CMD, this year Saudi Arabia has allocated 4500 places for Azerbaijan and 200 additional places for foreigners living in Azerbaijan. This year, the prices for pilgrimage were made several changes. Thus, a majority of pilgrims will leave for Hajj by buses and it will take $1350 (in last season - $1320). And the pilgrims desiring to visit in airplane Boing-737 will have to pay $2200 (last season - 2100).