The Office of Hajj and Umrah Affairs at the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Uzbekistan has announced the start of a new umrah season in August 2025.
Starting from June 12, Uzbek pilgrims who performed the Hajj rites in Saudi Arabia will begin a phased return home.
Today, on May 13, the first group of pilgrims from Uzbekistan, intending to make the blessed Hajj pilgrimage, set off for Saudi Arabia, according to the Office of Muslims of the Republic.
Today, on June 25, deputies of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis at the plenary session conceptually considered in the first reading the draft Law "On amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan on further strengthening the rights of children."
More than 1.3 thousand pilgrims have died this year during the Hajj to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's Minister of Health Fahd al-Jalajil said on Sunday evening on the Saudi TV channel Al-Ikhbariya.
The Office of Muslims of Uzbekistan announced the date and time of the festive prayer in honor of Eid ul-Adha in Tashkent and the regions of the country.
On June 10, the Uzbek delegation took part in the 48th Hajj Conference in Mecca at the invitation of Minister of Hajj and Umrah Affairs Tawfiq bin Fauzan Al-Rabia. The theme of this year's event was dedicated to "Compliance with legal permits and applicable rules when performing Hajj rites."
This year, the total quota for Hajj for Uzbek citizens is 15,000 people. This was announced at a briefing at the Information and Mass Communications Agency by the head of the information service of the Committee on Religious Affairs, Ilkhom Marupov.
The first working group consisting of representatives of the Committee on Religious Affairs of Uzbekistan, the Muslim Board and a team of chefs arrived in Saudi Arabia to carefully prepare for the reception of pilgrims from our country in the beginning of the Hajj season.
In order to inform our compatriots in South Korea about the true essence of the sacred religion of Islam and further enhance their religious and educational literacy, the chairman of the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, Mufti Nuriddin Khaliknazar, arrived in South Korea today.
