Pilgrims in the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia can once again touch and kiss one of Islam’s most revered relics – the Black Stone set in the sacred Kaaba building. A barrier around the Kaaba ...

The Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure, is the focal point toward which Muslims face during their daily prayers from anywhere in the world.

Muslim pilgrims perform prayers around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca ahead of the hajj pilgrimage — Abdel Ghani BASHIR Enormous crowds of ...

Cairo: The covering cloth of the Holy Kaaba, which Muslims around the world direct in their prayers, is displayed for the ...

at a cost of 25 million Saudi riyals ($6,650,000) Sami Mzayen, Supervisor at Kiswa factory: "The cloth of the holy Kaaba is made out of 56 golden pieces that covers it. Here in the department we have ...

MENA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - More than two million Muslims performing the haj pilgrimage entered the final stage of the rituals on Wednesday, visiting the Grand Mosque in Mecca and stoning walls ...

A waning gibbous moon appeared directly above the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia at dawn on Friday, creating a rare celestial alignment over Islam’s holiest site. Majed Abu Zahra, head of the Jeddah ...

Both Hajj and the much awaited festival of Eid-ul-Adha (also known as Bakra Eid, Bakrid, Bakhreid, Eid-ul-Zuha, Eid al-Adha, Eid Qurban, Qurban Bayarami or the Feast of Sacrifice) are marked during ...

(MENAFN) A waning gibbous moon appeared directly above the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, at dawn on Friday, creating a rare astronomical alignment over Islam’s holiest site. Majed Abu Zahra, head of ...

A video showing snow falling at the Kaaba in Saudi Arabia’s Masjid al-Haram, the Grand Mosque of Mecca, has been digitally altered, according to the kingdom’s National Center for Meteorology. One ...