at a cost of 25 million Saudi riyals ($6,650,000) Sami Mzayen, Supervisor at Kiswa factory: "The cloth of the holy Kaaba is made out of 56 golden pieces that covers it. Here in the department we have ...

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Riyadh: The Kaaba, located in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is a highly sacred place for Muslims around the world. Muslims going for Hajj feel fortunate just to see the Kaaba and touch its wall.

Videos from the airport showed visibly upset students questioning why they had been summoned. One madrassa student, speaking ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Masses of Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca on Thursday circled the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, a day before heading to the nearby desert area of Mina to ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the Hajj, or pilgrimage, in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last ...

MAKKAH, SAUDI ARABIA, SA / ACCESS Newswire / June 26, 2025 / The General Authority for the Care of the Two Holy Mosques, represented by the King Abdulaziz Complex for the Holy Kaaba Kiswa, presided ...

Pilgrims outside the Grand Mosque, where fans are installed to cool them as temperatures climb towards 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) — Sajjad HUSSAIN Vast crowds of robed Muslim faithful ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Hajj, the world’s largest annual pilgrimage, begins today in ...