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 ...

Across the world, when Muslims kneel for their five-times-daily prayers, they face towards the same point in Makkah – a black ‘cube’ called the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam. To pray in this ...

Every year millions of Muslims travel to Mecca for the hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslims travel to Islam’s most sacred mosque, al-Masjid al-Haram, during the six-day pilgrimage. Mecca is ...

Saudi Arabia’s Mecca city is a blessed place chosen through history to be the destination for the prophet’s revelations, becoming the Qibla for millions of Muslims from all around the globe. Mecca’s ...

Hyderabad: As one steps inside the Masjid-e-Alamgir, Idgah Guttala at Begumpet, one cannot help but notice some peculiarities that no other mosque in Hyderabad, and perhaps across India, has. These ...

Saudi Arabia will spend $3.6 million renovating the door of the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Islam’s holiest site, local media have reported. The Kaaba is a sacred cubic box inside the Mosque ...

Saudi Arabia partially reopened Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, on Saturday but left the ban on pilgrimages in place as part of the kingdom's measures to combat the coronavirus. Based on a ...

The mosque to come up in Ayodhya pursuant to the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi case may have a shape that is different from the traditional shape of mosques and will not be named after ...