The most dramatic closure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, however, took place in 1979 when religious extremists stormed Islam's holiest site, which houses the cube-shaped Kaaba that Muslims pray ...

Muslims circle the Kaaba, located in the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as part of their Islamic pilgrimage. Dressed in a hijab and covered from head to toe, she felt something.

Harkassi said the group’s path from Spain took them across about 8,000km (nearly 5,000 miles) before they reached the Kaaba, the black cube structure in the Great Mosque of Mecca.

An alleged attempt by terrorists to attack the Great Mosque of Mecca, the holiest site in Islam, has been foiled, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced late last night. Al Arabiya,quoting the ...

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe on Friday began the annual pilgrimage to the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the hajj — with the faithful walking in the ...

He walked into the Masjid al-Haram Mosque, or the Great Mosque of Mecca, and was given the honor to enter the Kaaba, the shrine at the center of the mosque, the statement said.

Sacred Islamic artefacts dating back 700 years, including the 29ft-long (9m) cloth used to cover the Holy Kaaba in Mecca, ...

The Great Mosque of Mecca, also called Al-Haram Mosque, “the Forbidden Mosque” or “the Sacred Mosque” or Grand Mosque of Makkah, is the largest mosque in the world, and surrounds the ...

The magnificence of the Great Mosque had taken her breath away. But that man turned the trip into a nightmare. Instead of telling the authorities, the young Eltahawy simply burst into tears.