Located in Mecca, the Kaaba is Islam’s most sacred site and the focal point of daily Muslim prayer. This episode explores its ...

Muslim worshipers pray at the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca, June 23, during the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.

Also The Kaaba was located at the bottom of a valley and thus when it rained there used to be a flood and even the Kaaba would be covered in water. Yet believers swam to be near It and pray.

The pre-Islamic Arabs maintained the Kaaba as a sacred place even as they introduced into it their idols of worship. With the success of Islam in the peninsula, the idols were removed and the place ...

Historians specialized in the Kaaba’s history mention in some accounts that Al-Humairi covered the Kaaba with a thick cloth called khasf and later with Maafir, which is originally named after an ...

The Kaaba is located in the Great Mosque of Mecca, also known as Masjid al-Haram. When carrying out the Tawaf ritual, pilgrims walk around the Kaaba seven times.

The Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia will be illuminated by the sun directly overhead at 12:18 p.m. local time Friday, coinciding with the call to prayer in a phenomenon that happens only ...

In the Kaaba, the most ancient and remarkable building or the great Mosque at Mecca, is preserved a miraculous stone, with the print of Abraham's feet impressed upon it. It is said, by Mohammedan ...

A team from the King Abdulaziz Complex for Holy Kaaba Kiswa, consisting of 159 craftsmen, carried out the replacement at the Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Towels were used to wipe the walls of the Kaaba, and after the guests leave its hall, its floor covered with washed marble, will be processed. The interior walls are cleansed with a white cloth ...