The Presidency of Religious Affairs at the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque announced that Friday sermon of tomorrow, July 4, at the Grand Mosque in Makkah will be translated into 35 languages ...

Prabowo's upcoming talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) will also result in some MoUs, according to the ...

Viral sensation, Shatta Bandle, has announced his pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Medina, on social mediaThe viral star made the trip to Mecca with his rich boss and friend, Alhaji Salamu Amadu, ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming ...

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 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 ...

Mecca: Volunteering at the Grand Mosque is both an honour and an act of worship, combining the service of visitors and Umrah performers with the pursuit of great rewards from Almighty Allah.

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.

Cairo: The number of Muslims flocking from different parts of Saudi Arabia to perform the Umrah or minor pilgrimage in the Grand Mosque in Mecca is surging as the mid-year school holiday in the ...

The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617. War bounty was typically used to fund large-scale projects like this, but the Sultan chose to use ...

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.

The mosque site in the heart of Gaza city has been a place of worship for thousands of years, dating back, according to some accounts, to the Philistines whose temple walls were said to have been ...