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Bab al-Umrah was a gate on the western side of Masjid al-Haram, so called because those who came from al-Tan'im to perform umrah usually entered and left the…
Bab al-Umrah was a gate on the western side of Masjid al-Haram, so called because those who came from al-Tan'im to perform umrah usually entered and left the mosque through it. Al-Azraqi called it the gate of Banu Sahm. It had a single door and twelve steps. Beside it, at the north-western corner of the mosque, stood the Bab al-Umrah minaret, first built in the enlargement of the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur in 137-140 AH and rebuilt by Sultan Suleyman in 931 AH. The gate and its minaret were removed when Masjid al-Haram was enlarged in the twentieth century. Their site lies inside the present mosque, about 85 to 95 metres west of the Ka'bah.