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 ...

at a cost of 25 million Saudi riyals ($6,650,000) Sami Mzayen, Supervisor at Kiswa factory: "The cloth of the holy Kaaba is made out of 56 golden pieces that covers it. Here in the department we have ...

Riyadh: The holy Kiswah which covers the Kaaba will be screened at the Islamic Arts Biennale, 2025 in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. This will be the first time that Kiswah will be shown outside ...

120kg gold, 100 kg silver and 1,000 kg of silk are used in the production of the Kiswa A team from the King Abdulaziz Complex for the Kiswa of the Kaaba installed the elaborately designed black cloth ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Masses of Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca on Thursday circled the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, a day before heading to the nearby desert area of Mina to ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that time, ...

MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA — These days it’s easier to find a Cinnabon in Mecca than the house where the prophet Muhammad was born. The ancient sites in Islam’s holiest city are under attack from both money ...

(The Conversation) — Despite reports of mismanagement, the 2024 Hajj brought together pilgrims of diverse backgrounds from 180 countries. But despite the risks, millions of Muslims perform the ...

This week over a million Muslims will make their Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. So many people in a single place always makes for good photographs. Most often in the news we see aerial ...