Bandar Baleela — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Bandar Baleela; used for entity facts only. It gives his full name, his birth in Mecca in 1975 (1395 AH), his studies at Umm al-Qura University and the Islamic University of Madinah, his appointment as an official imam of Masjid al-Haram in 2013 and as a khatib by royal decree in 2019, his membership of the Council of Senior Scholars from October 2020, and his delivery of the 2021 Arafat sermon.