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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Ayodhya Mosque: The Imam-e-Haram (the Imam who leads namaz) at the holy mosque of Kaaba in Mecca will lay the foundation stone of the proposed mosque in Ayodhya that is going to be constructed as ...

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 ...