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

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 ...

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

the Great Mosque of Mecca. The central hotel tower, which is the Makkah Clock Royal Tower, is the fourth-tallest building and sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. Constructed at an ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Dubai: Mecca’s Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia undergoes a full-scale cleaning operation in just 35 minutes, ensuring pilgrims can perform their rituals without disruption. According to the General ...

The Grand Mosque in Mecca has recorded unprecedented numbers of worshippers and visitors during the first 10 days of Ramadan, with more than 25 million people gathering for prayers, Al Arabiya ...