Over the past several years, the Acheen Street Mosque here has opened its doors to the general public during Ramadan to host ...

The traditional ceremony of replacing the Kiswa (cover) of the Holy Kaabah at the Grand Mosque in Mecca commenced on ...

At the heart of the controversy is Keyi Rubath, a 19th-Century guest house built in the 1870s by Mayankutty Keyi, a wealthy Indian merchant from Malabar (modern-day Kerala), whose trading empire ...

Cairo: The monthly electricity bill for the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest in Mecca amounts to SR15 million, or around $4 million, a Saudi TV report has disclosed. The sprawling mosque and its ...

Saudi Arabia has replaced the Kaaba’s Kiswa as the Hijrah year 1447 begins. The Kaaba is considered the "House of Allah" and ...

With the arrival of the Islamic year 1447 on the Hijri calendar, Saudi Arabia has once again renewed the Kiswah, the covering of the Kaaba, the most ...

Muslims from around the world are in the Saudi city of Mecca for the Hajj, one of the Five Pillars of Islam. In the coming ...

A view of the main mosque in Mecca in a portrait taken in early 20th Century . Neyaz Farooquee. BBC News, Delhi. Published. 6 June 2025.

The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque held the ceremonial changing of the Kiswa ...

Police are in the process of identifying those responsible for an alleged Haj package scam involving a group of elderly pilgrims who claimed they ...