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 ...

SPA Cairo: Residents and visitors of the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, home to Islam’s two holiest mosque, made more than 320 million phone calls during the first half of the current Muslim ...

The Kiswah is a holy cloth that covers the Kaaba, the sacred stone building at the center of the Great Mosque in Makkah (or Mecca), that is ... embroidery of Kiswah made of silk, gold and silver ...

Millions of Muslims from inside and outside Saudi Arabia flock to Islam's holiest sites of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina for intense worshipping in Ramadan.

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 ...

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 ...