This Middle Eastern country is building the world's largest clock, which is also the fourth-tallest building in the world.

Beautiful buildings are a feast for the eyes. Whether shopping malls or office buildings, mosques or cathedrals, sports ...

Not only is the Great Mosque of Mecca considered to be the holiest mosque in Islam and the largest in the world, it is also the most expensive building on the planet, worth an incredible £75 ...

From space, Mecca appears as a city of light and contrast, with winding roads threading through rugged mountains. The radiant ...

On Friday, February 28, worshippers gathered at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah to perform the ...

Islamic artefacts dating back hundreds of years, including the cloth used to cover the Kaaba in Mecca, are going on display ...

Reuters news agency noticed at least one surprising shift in rhetoric: The sermon by Abdulrahman al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, broadcast on Saudi state television on Sept.

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 ...

Thousands of worshippers entered the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca in batches to perform the ritual of circling the sacred Kaaba, a cubic structure towards which Muslims around the world ...

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 ...