The complex is 300 metres from the world's largest mosque and Islam's most sacred site, the Great Mosque of Mecca. The central ... its construction in 2002. The height was then increased to ...

One of the five pillars of Islam is that each believer is called, at least once in their lives, to make the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that starts and ends in the holy city of Mecca located in ...

Mecca, closed to non-Muslims, is home to the Kaaba - a cube structure draped in black cloth embroidered in gold located at the heart of the mosque. The Great Mosque of Mecca with its Ottoman ...

Dubai: The third expansion of the Grand Mosque in Mecca is now welcoming worshippers ... stand at a towering 35.5 metres in internal height, and are strategically placed across the second and ...

Multi-billion-riyal project aimed to increase the mosque’s capacity Dubai: For the first time in over a decade, the skyline of Mecca’s Grand Mosque stands unobstructed — free of the towering ...

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 ...