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 ...

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 ...

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 officially open the Hajj, the annual ...

Allah Almighty says: {Indeed, it is We Who sent down the Quran and indeed, We will be its guardian.} [Quran 15: 9] According to the verse, it is Allah alone, rather than humans, Who protects the Quran ...

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 ...

To bring a crowd to the Islamabad Airport to greet the U-19 Asia Cupwinning team, Pakistani authorities apparently lied to ...

Videos from the airport showed visibly upset students questioning why they had been summoned. One madrassa student, speaking ...

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 ...

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 ...