The importance of the Kaaba, which has the shape of a cube and is draped in black cloth, predates the rise of Islam. The structure, which is about 860 square feet and built with granite stones from ...

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 ...

Muslims circled the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, for a final time Tuesday, bringing to a close what may have been the largest hajj pilgrimage ever. There were none of the deadly stampedes that have ...

Embedded in the southeastern corner of the Kaaba, the black stone is a famous stone is reddish-black and surrounded by a silver frame.

24 July 2009 MAKKAH: Amid an overwhelming ambience of spirituality characterized by Takbeer chants of (Allahu Akbar) and Tahleel (La Ilaha Illallaah) Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal early Thursday ...

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 ...

One million Muslims are about to embark on the most important religious event in the Islamic calender, as hundreds of thousands of global worshippers arrive in Saudi Arabia for Hajj. Hajj is one of ...

RIYADH (AP) — Early last 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 sacred ...