RUSSIAN PILGRIMS LEFT FOR SAUDI ARABIA








MAKHATCHKALA, March 2.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Dekabr Beiboutov).
More than fifteen hundreds Daghestanais (Daghestan is an autonomous
republic of the Caucasus of North forming part of the Federation of
Russia) left for Saudi Arabia in order to carry out a pilgrimage
there.  It is what has advertisement the head of the Department of the
religious businesses of the government daghestanais, Akhmed Magomedov.
Every year, has the occasion of the fete Sacrifice, celebree this year
on March 5, the Moslems daghestanais go massively on the holy spot of
Islam has Mecque and has Medine.

The government daghestanais has decide decreter the day of Monday,
March 5, chome day.

Akhmen Magomedov A also indicates that principal the solennites
organisees within the framework of the fete of the Sacrifice will take
place within the framework of more than 1.500 mosquees which account
the republic.  The majority of them have ete restaurees or built
during ten dernieres years which is ecoulees since the beginning of
reform democratic in Russia.