In the bustling city of Makkah, surrounded by skyscrapers and technology, stands a simple cube-shaped structure made of stone ...

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As millions journey to the heart of Islam this Hajj season, it's a powerful time to pause and reflect on the sacred structure ...

The black stone of the Kaaba in Mecca. (Saudi Arabia General Presidency of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque) A close up image of the black stone of the Kaaba in Mecca.

Hajj begins on June 4. Here is a 3D tour that walks you through all the key steps of the annual Muslim pilgrimage.

Every day, Muslims from all over the world bow to pray in the direction of the Kaaba, the most sacred place in Islam. To be able to go there at least once in one's life, to kiss the black stone on ...

“The stone originally was apparently white, not black. It’s thought mankind touching ... the stone to Abraham while he was building the Kaaba, according to Oxford Islamic Studies Online.

During the Hajj of 930, a rebellious Isamaili Shiite Muslim group known as the Qarmatians sacked the Kaaba and stole from it the Black Stone, a revered, potentially extraterrestrial relic believed ...

“The stone originally was apparently white, not black. It’s thought mankind touching ... the stone to Abraham while he was building the Kaaba, according to Oxford Islamic Studies Online.