For many, it's the pinnacle of their spiritual lives and some walk hundreds or even thousands of miles to reach the holy city of Mecca in Saudi ... destination is the Kaaba — a black cube ...

Open: Wellcome Collection Mecca: shrine of Kaʻbah within the Al-Ha... Mecca: shrine of Kaʻbah within the Al-Haram mosque, with a view of the city. Lithograph, c. 1820.

The Kiswah is a holy cloth that covers the Kaaba, the sacred stone building at the center of the Great Mosque in Makkah (or Mecca), that is considered to be the physical center of Islam and is ...

SPA Cairo: The covering cloth of the Holy Kaaba, which Muslims around the world direct in their prayers, is displayed for the first time outside the Saudi city of Mecca. The elaborately decorated ...

There are few religious structures as holy or as iconic to so many people as Kaaba, the famous black structure in Mecca which is seen as the final destination for the millions of Muslims who join ...