Not only is the Great Mosque of Mecca considered to be the holiest mosque in Islam and the largest in the world, it is also the most expensive building on the planet, worth an incredible £75 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The oldest mosques in the world bear witness to the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula to across the globe.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 around since the 16th ...