The whitewashed Haji Ali Mosque, containing saint Haji Ali's tomb, sits off the Mumbai coast at the end of a long, unprotected causeway protruding into the Arabian Sea. Thousands make the pilgrimage to the mosque each week, at low tide.
Haji Ali renounced all his wordly possessions before making a pilgrimage to Mecca. Legend has it that he died on his way to Mecca and his body, in its casket, floated back to Mumbai to the spot where the mosque stands today.