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Millions of Hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia have performed stoning as Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha - the greater of two Muslim festivals.
Pilgrims started arriving at the tent city of Mina early on Friday morning for the third day of Hajj rites, after spending the night at Muzdalifah.
Throngs of people proceeded to the Jamarat Bridge to hurl stones at one of three walls representing the devil, historically the most dangerous rite of the Muslim pilgrimage.
The bridge has been the sight of deadly stampedes in the past, although it has been without major incident in recent years, due in part to new crowd-control mechanisms, and an expanded multi-storey structure.
This year, Saudi unveiled a fifth level of the bridge.
Saudi TV footage showed thousands of pilgrims who had reached the Grand Mosque in Mecca by mid-morning to perform a ritual circulation of the Kaaba.
Despite a late downpour, the stoning was orderly, fulfilling Saudi hopes that enlarged pillars and the newly built walkway would end deadly stampedes as the faithful jammed into the area for the required ritual.
Pilgrim camps soaked
Thunderstorms earlier in the week had soaked the pilgrim camp sites in Mina and related floods have killed more than 80 people in the city of Jeddah so far.
Thousands of pilgrims were also reported to have been stuck in Jeddah because of the flooding, unable to begin Hajj.
Pilgrims will continue Hajj rites for the next two days, camping out at Mina and stoning the three columns representing the devil daily.
Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and it is mandatory for all able-bodied Muslims with the financial means to undertake it once in their lifetimes.
PHOTO CAPTION
A butcher prepares to slaughter sheep to be sacrificed on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Ankara November 27, 2009.
Al-Jazeera
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