This year’s pilgrimage, attended by more than 1.8 million people, was under tight logistical planning and safety precautions ...

The Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure, is the focal point toward which Muslims face during their daily prayers from anywhere in ...

Here’s all you need to know about the date, history, significance and key rituals of Hajj, from wearing the Ihram to ...

The Imam of Makkah's Grand Mosque, Sheikh Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid, on Thursday prayed for the people of Palestine ...

Three Spanish Muslims who rode on horseback to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia say they followed a path not traveled for more than ...

Harkassi said the group’s path from Spain took them across about 8,000km (nearly 5,000 miles) before they reached the Kaaba, the black cube structure in the Great Mosque of Mecca. “We had ...

After entering Mecca in ihram, many pilgrims perform an initial tawaf by circling the Kaaba, a black stone structure at the heart of the Great Mosque in Mecca (Masjid al-Haram), seven times in a ...

Watch live as Muslim pilgrims from around the world perform “tawaf,” circling the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, on ...

Preparation of the Ghilaf-e-Kaaba is currently underway at the Kiswa factory. The covering, made from high-quality silk, gold and silver, is completed over a period of ten months. A total of 159 ...

Watch live as Muslim pilgrims from around the world perform “tawaf,” circling the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, on ...