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.

In Mina, about 5 miles from the Great Mosque of Mecca, tents that stretch as far as the eye can see are provided to travelers who stay at the camp while performing other parts of the pilgrimage.

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.

But one agency agreed, and thus started my journey to the holiest place in Islam. Last year, a record 13.5 million Muslims visited the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. As I passed ...

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.

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 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.

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.

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 ...

3. Great Mosque of Kairouan, Kairouan, Tunisia. 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 ...

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.