A protective barrier stopped pilgrims touching the Kaaba and Black Stone during the pandemic Pilgrims in the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia can once again touch and kiss one of Islam's most ...

Exactly 45 years ago, Mecca Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest place, was taken over by 200 armed men led by preacher Juhayman al-Utaybi. Blood would flow before the weeks-long siege ended. The events of ...

The Great Mosque was named after Nur al-Din Mahmoud ... a niche indicating the direction of Mecca. The Iraqi military said IS militants blew up the mosque and minaret eight days ago, leaving ...

Thousands of worshippers entered the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca in batches to perform the ritual of circling the sacred Kaaba, a cubic structure towards which Muslims around the world ...

Reuters news agency noticed at least one surprising shift in rhetoric: The sermon by Abdulrahman al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, broadcast on Saudi state television on Sept.

One of the five pillars of Islam is that each believer is called, at least once in their lives, to make the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that starts and ends in the holy city of Mecca located in ...

The tower stands just 300 metres away from the Great Mosque of Mecca. Where those who do not practice the Islamic faith are not allowed in Mecca, which meant that many of the construction workers ...

will be laid by Imam-e-Haram or the Imam who leads namaz at the holy mosque in the precincts that also house the Kaaba in Mecca. Masjid Mohammad Bin Abdullah is being constructed almost 25 ...

The simplest mosque would be a prayer room with a wall marked with a “mihrab” – a niche indicating the direction of Mecca, which Muslims should face when praying. A typical mosque also ...

You might be able to get a great deal if you hold off booking a hotel near Safwa station mosque until the last minute. This is because sometimes hotels in Mecca lower prices a day or two before the ...