MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia – Each year between 2 to 3 million Muslims from around the world take part in a five-day pilgrimage in Mecca called the hajj. They circle Islam's most sacred site, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure, is the focal point toward which Muslims face during their daily prayers from anywhere in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Hajj, the world’s largest annual pilgrimage, begins today in ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia – As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that time, ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Vast crowds of robed Muslim faithful walk solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Mecca’s Grand Mosque to begin the biggest hajj pilgrimage in several years, in the ...

Vast crowds of robed pilgrims made solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Mecca's Grand Mosque, on June 25 as the biggest Hajj pilgrimage in years began in the heat of the Saudi summer.

Saudi officials have replaced the Kiswa (the cloth cover) of the Kaaba, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Saturday. The Kiswa covers the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building that Muslims ...

Mecca (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – Vast crowds of robed Muslim faithful walked solemn circles around the Kaaba, the black cube at Mecca's Grand Mosque on Sunday to begin the biggest hajj pilgrimage in ...