Riyadh: The Kaaba, located in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is a highly sacred place for Muslims around the world. Muslims going for Hajj feel fortunate just to see the Kaaba and touch its wall.

The Kiswah is a holy cloth that covers the Kaaba, the sacred stone building at the center of the Great Mosque in Makkah (or Mecca), that is considered to be the physical center of Islam and is ...

Unlike other sacred sites, Mecca is closed off to believers ... At the southwest corner of the Ka'aba is a black stone encased in silver. Some Muslims believe that this is a stone from the heavens.