Saudi Arabia on Monday said foreigners are from now on allowed to invest in Saudi-listed companies that own property in Mecca ...

A young man from Lower Austria, specifically from the district of Bruck an der Leitha, is in custody in Saudi Arabia, ...

The literal meaning of Kiswah is cloak. It is a black cloth with intricately embroidered cloth, which covers the Kaaba. The ...

Reuters news agency noticed at least one surprising shift in rhetoric: The sermon by Abdulrahman al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, broadcast on Saudi state television on Sept.

Thousands of worshippers entered the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca in batches to perform the ritual of circling the sacred Kaaba, a cubic structure towards which Muslims around the world ...

Deputising of His Majesty King Abdullah, HRH Prince Hashim Bin Al Hussein attended a ceremony on Monday, marking the occasion ...

People gathered at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 2016. It recently flooded along with other Saudi Arabian cities due to heavy rainfall and storms. People gathered at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 2016.

Non-Muslims are not allowed to own property in the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, even after Saudi Arabia gradually ...

"The mosque definitely," I answer quickly. "But which one?" he replies laughing. "There are hundreds of them." Harar's other moniker is the African Mecca, and locals here claim that the area's ...

At his mosque Kaisan prays with his dad in the men's section. During prayers everyone faces the qibla a niche in the wall pointing towards the Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca. There's a verse in ...