Dubai: The annual ceremonial washing of the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine located within the Grand Mosque in Mecca, was ...

During the week of the haj, an annual pilgrimage of Muslims around the world to Mecca, Muslims converge on the city to perform a series of rituals, including the circling of the cube-shaped Kaaba, ...

Born, according to tradition, around 570 in Mecca, the founder of Islam was a preacher, a prophet and a legislator, as well ...

The first batch of 272 Haj pilgrims, out of a total of 310 from various parts of Punjab, has returned safely after paying ...

There were attempts to do this in AlBidayah (The Beginning), where the Kiswah – the black-and-gold cloth that drapes the Kaaba (the cube-shaped shrine at the centre of Mecca’s Grand Mosque) – is ...

A press statement published by the Presidential Secretariat said that during the pilgrimage, Prabowo took the time to pray inside the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam, and got the chance to kiss the ...

President Prabowo performs Umrah in Mecca and meets Saudi Crown Prince, pledging joint humanitarian support for Gaza during ...

Saudi Arabia rolled out advanced technology, robust international coordination, and unprecedented crowd management systems ...

Umrah is an act of worshipping Allah by entering the state of Ihram, circumambulating the Kaaba seven times. Muslim men often go to the barber shops to have their hair shaved or trimmed after ...

It is produced annually at the King Abdulaziz Complex for the Manufacturing of the Kaaba’s Kiswa in Mecca, and its estimated cost is approximately $4.5 million (385 530 300.00 INR A ritual of ...

The old Kiswa was removed and the new one installed and secured over the Kaaba’s corners and rooftop. “By the grace of Allah, the ceremony of replacing the Kiswa of the Holy Kaaba for the year ...

Saudi Arabia unveiled the new Kiswa, the black and gold cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca, on the first day of the Islamic ...