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Mecca is home to the world's largest mosque, known as the Great Mosque, and pilgrims travel to Medina, also spelled Madinah, to visit the Prophet's Mosque, the second holiest Islamic site globally.

Not only is the Great Mosque of Mecca considered to be the holiest mosque in Islam and the largest in the world, it is also the most expensive building on the planet, worth an incredible £75 ...

The Great Mosque of Mecca cost £73billion to build and is currently able to fit 2.5million worshippers inside. Located in Saudi Arabia, it receives millions of worshippers each year.

Saudi Arabia is pumping billions of dollars into the holy city of Mecca to meet its ambitious economic targets, with high-end hotels, apartment blocks, retailers and restaurants planned for areas ...

Pilgrims in the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia can once again touch and kiss one of Islam's most revered relics - the Black Stone set in the sacred Kaaba building.

The 35-year-old engineer, who has been in Mecca for four months alongside seven other Malaysians, is tasked with ensuring that newly installed electrical systems at the Great Mosque – which ...

The Great Mosque has stood at the heart of Arab-Muslim worship for more than a thousand years. A popular saying is that if you cannot go to Mecca, seven pilgrimages to Kairouan might save your soul.

The ban is largely based on a verse in the Quran (Surah At-Tawbah 9:28) banning polytheists from approaching the Great Mosque in Mecca.

The mosque houses a Musallah, or main prayer hall, a kitchen, a library and two offices. Tile imported from Sri Lanka adorns the mosque’s mihrab, a small, curved niche signaling Mecca’s direction.

Mecca is home to the world's largest mosque, known as the Great Mosque, and pilgrims travel to Medina, also spelled Madinah, to visit the Prophet's Mosque, the second holiest Islamic site globally.