The faith of up to 1.8 billion people, roughly a quarter of the world’s population, dictates each one of them pray five times a day in the direction of a small, cubic building in Saudi Arabia. This ...

The Kiswa is replaced once a year on the 9th day of the month of Dul Hijjah after the pilgrims go to Mount Arafat. On behalf of King Salman, Makkah Gov. Prince Khalid Al-Faisal on Wednesday handed ...

The structure that stands high in the middle of Makkah's Masjid Al-Haram is the Holy Kaaba -- the most sacred site in Islam. Considered the 'House of Allah', Muslims the world over turn towards it ...

ALBAWABA - There was a lot of controversy recently when video footage of pilgrims circling around a copy of the Kaaba in Nigeria rather than Saudi Arabia surfaced. Some viewed this as a slight to the ...

An aerial view taken on March 5, 2020 shows the white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba, inside Makkah´s Grand Mosque, empty of worshippers. Saudi Arabia today emptied Islam´s holiest site for ...

The ceremony of cleaning the Holy Kaaba was carried out on Monday by Makkah Emir Prince Khaled Al-Faisal. The ceremony is part of the tradition set by Prophet Muhammad. Prince Khaled and the ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Early Saturday, senior members of the Saudi royal family and religious establishment took up brooms and cloths perfumed with rosewater to wash the interior of the Kaaba, the ...

The cost of renovating and installing the door of the Kaaba and the Tobah door inside the Kaaba is estimated at SR13.4 million ($3.6 million) as stated by a General Presidency of the Affairs of the ...

A Bahraini man, who shot to fame after being captured by a photographer performing Tawaf around a flooded Kaaba has died, aged 86. In one of the rare pictures of 1941 flood that submerged the Makkah’s ...

Chief key holder and caretaker of the Holy Kaaba Dr Sheikh Saleh Al-Shaiba breathed his last Saturday morning after a prolonged illness. Al-Shaiba the 109th guardian of the Holy Kaaba and successor to ...