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.

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.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia >> Billboards line the Umm Al Qura highway leading to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, displaying manicured public spaces, glass-fronted stores and sleek towers. It’s part of a $26 ...

The attack on Mecca, which was instrumental in forcing King Husein of Hejaz to resign (TIME, October 13), came to an end without a shot being fired. The warlike Wahabis, subject of the Emir of Nejd ...

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 billion.

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. In the Channel 13 report published on Monday, ...

Saudi Arabia Muslim pilgrims complete this year's Hajj as deadly triple-digit temps sear Mecca Dozens of pilgrims, including at least 41 Jordanian nationals, died of sunstroke in 116-degree Saudi heat ...

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.

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 ...

The Great Mosque of Algiers (or the Djamaa El-Djazair) is also the third-largest in the world, eclipsed only by the Grand Mosque of Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina.

Billboards line the Umm Al Qura highway leading to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, displaying manicured public spaces, glass-fronted stores and sleek towers.It’s part of a $26 billion project to ...