Aerial view of Mecca's Grand Mosque, clock tower, Kaaba, and Mount Arafat ...

The photos were taken from the Abraj al-Bait Towers, and show Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We have more ...

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Every year hundreds of thousands of Muslims from around the world pour into Mecca making the Hajj pilgrimage. As one of the five pillars of Islam, the pilgrimage marks an important experience for many ...

Two million Muslims from around the globe began the hajj pilgrimage this week as they travelled to the holy city of Mecca. The journey is said to be one of the five pillars of Islam, the cornerstones ...

The faith of up to 1.8 billion people, roughly a quarter of the world's population, dictates each one of them pray five times a day in the direction of a small, cubic building in Saudi Arabia. This ...

Al Neyadi tweeted a picture of the holy city of Mecca from the ISS (Picture: Sultan Al Neyadi/UAE Space Agency/Twitter) Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the first ...