Twenty hours later, the couple arrived from New York in Medina, Islam's second-holiest city after Mecca.
It's the site of the Imam Hussein shrine, one of Shiite Islam's holiest locations.
The date clashes, though, with Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
In going after tenure, Ms. Rhee is taking on the holiest citadel of the education establishment.
The shrine, housing a hair from the Buddha's head, is one of Myanmar's holiest and some 2, 000 years old.
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Despite the attacks, Orthodox Christians in Serbia celebrated Dukhovi, the third-holiest day in the Eastern Orthodox calendar.
" His friend and fellow seminarian, Christopher Deleon from Baltimore, is just "hoping they pick the holiest cardinal.
He will be buried in his hometown of Najaf, one of the holiest cities for Shiite Muslims, al-Husseini said.
The chalice and paten are the implements used to celebrate the Eucharist, the holiest act of the Catholic Church.
Liberties are the holiest thing in the West, and nothing is more important.
Ramadan is one of the holiest times of the Islamic calendar, but for some Muslims it is potentially the most deadly.
Al-Aqsa mosque is in the heart of Jerusalem's old city, alongside sites also considered amongst the holiest by Jews and Christians.
The crew arrived at 1 a.m. in the city -- home to the Ka-aba, the holiest site in the Islamic faith.
However, the combination of Hilton's personal image with the holiest city in the Muslim world has riled some in the conservative kingdom.
In Jerusalem, more than 20, 000 Israelis gathered at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, to protest the conference.
"One cardinal called him 'the holiest man that I've ever known, '" Msgr.
The Shah-i-Zinda, a necropolis in Samarkand, was one of Islam's holiest places.
But this ancient land is the holiest piece of real estate in the world for both Jews and Christians, and revered by Muslims.
Women of the Wall says it wants equal access for all Jewish practices and denominations at the holiest site for prayer in Judaism.
The reputed head of John the Baptist is the holiest object in the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, venerated by Christians and Muslims alike.
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In contrast, when the Western Wall - Judaism's holiest place - was under Arab control until 1967, Jews were not permitted even to visit it.
The club hosts the Sky cameras once again when it plays West Ham - on one of the holiest days of the year, Good Friday.
But today the shrine is one of the holiest in China.
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The Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, said on his Twitter account that he had made an unofficial visit to the mosque, one of the three holiest places in Islam.
In Galaxidi, a small fishing village in Greece, revellers hurl multicoloured flour to celebrate one of the holiest (and most ironically named) days of the year - Clean Monday.
The Yemeni authorities also darkly note that the Houthis' long-time leader, Hussein al-Houthi, who died in battle in 2004, used to visit Qom, one of Shia Iran's holiest cities.
Islam is central to the identity of the Saudi state, whose influence in the Muslim world is based on its stewardship of Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam.
Authorities estimate that as many as 80 million pilgrims will attend this year's event, and that about 15 million people visited on Sunday -- considered the holiest day of the festival.
There is genuine fear that the holiest sites of Christianity, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, will become mere museums.
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