Sentence examples similar to taxing pilgrimage from inspiring English sources
During this period he ended discrimination against the Hindus by abolishing pilgrimage taxes in 1563 and the hated jizyah (poll tax on non-Muslims) in 1564.
Beyond admitting non-Muslims into the royal administration and household where Hindus worked in such positions as military commanders, finance ministers, tax collectors, scribes, cooks, and artists Akbar abolished the bitterly resented poll tax (jizya) on non-Muslim males, required by Islamic law, and a pilgrimage tax on Hindus traveling to their sacred sites.
There were poll taxes (the hated Jaziya), taxes to visit their places of pilgrimage, additional taxes to do trade.
Israel had the only exception because of the money brought as part of the Temple tax in yearly pilgrimages to Jerusalem.
The Jews of Egypt were at least loyal in their contributions of the Temple tax and in their pilgrimages to Jerusalem on the three festivals.
Although they get tax breaks (because they are nominally open to visitors who can book the pilgrimage), these neo-aristocratic institutions don't pretend to have any real connection to the public sphere.
Both are pilgrimage churches.
