Hajj: Why is The Kaaba Covered With The Kiswa? Published July 23rd, 2020 - 06:31 GMT. The golden doors of the Holy Kaaba closeup, covered with Kiswah. Massive lock on the doors.

The last three days of the hajj are marked by three events: a final circling of the Kaaba, casting stones in Mina and removing the ihram. Men often shave their heads at the end in a sign of renewal.

Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the Hajj pilgrimage in the deadly summer heat with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam's ...

Over 2 million Muslims from around the world are beginning the five-day hajj pilgrimage Sunday. They will circle Islam’s most sacred site, the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Saudi Arabian city of ...

The first day of the Hajj. The rites of the Hajj are believed to retrace events from the lives of prominent prophets such as Ibrahim and Ismail. Pilgrims start by circling the “Holy Kaaba,” the black, ...

Vast crowds of robed pilgrims made solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, on Sunday as the biggest hajj pilgrimage in years began in the heat of the Saudi summer.

What Hajj 2014, “the Year of the Selfie,” represents is the democratization of the sacred. In traditional religion, unique places like the black stone Kaaba or the Dome of the Rock in ...

Muslim pilgrims pray around the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Aug. 16, 2018.

Muslims circle the Kaaba in Mecca and head to Mount Arafat as the annual Hajj pilgrimage gets underway, with visitor numbers close to pre-pandemic levels.

In 2019, nearly 2.5 million Muslims performed Hajj before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted religious and other gatherings the world over and took its toll on the Islamic pilgrimage.

Vast crowds of robed Muslim faithful walked solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Mecca's Grand Mosque on Sunday to begin the biggest hajj pilgrimage in several years, in the heat of the ...