This Middle Eastern country is building the world's largest clock, which is also the fourth-tallest building in the world.

The owner of one of the area’s many textile factories commissioned the Zebun Nessa Mosque, named for his late mother, as a ...

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 ...

You can start this week. The price tag on the Great Mosque of Mecca is admittedly a bit deceiving. Although the building is certainly massive and extravagant, the oldest parts of the mosque have been ...

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.

Grand Mosque in Mecca expands capacity and services amid unprecedented Ramadan turnout More than 5.5 million perform Umrah as Mecca ramps up operations for Ramadan surge General Authority for Care ...

Mecca, closed to non-Muslims, is home to the Kaaba - a cube structure draped in black cloth embroidered in gold located at the heart of the mosque. The Great Mosque of Mecca with its Ottoman ...

the sacred stone structure at the heart of the Great Mosque in Mecca, which is considered the spiritual centre of Islam. Made from pure silk, 22 carat gold and silver, and embroidered with Quranic ...

Terengganu ustaz Mohd Shukri Ali’s Quranic recitation style closely resembles that of Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, grand imam of the Great Mosque of Mecca.

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 ...

He walked into the Masjid al-Haram Mosque, or the Great Mosque of Mecca, and was given the honor to enter the Kaaba, the shrine at the center of the mosque, the statement said. "Then the head of ...