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

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

This high-status gift is one of the many ways meteoritic iron was revered by ancient civilizations. One of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics for iron seems to be derived from a longer phrase ...

Ramadan, an important Islamic holiday when Muslims fast each day for nearly a month, begins this weekend. Here's what to know ...

is in the center of the Great Mosque in Mecca. Kaaba, meaning “cube” in Arabic, is a black stone cube important to the Hajj. Furthermore, it’s the qibla, or direction, in which Muslims face ...

Work on The Mukaab, slated to become the world's largest building, is well and truly underway - as pressure builds for ...

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The table above is the complete Mecca Ramadan Calendar 2025. Here you can see the Sehri timing and iftar timing in Mecca from the first to the last Ramadan fasting day. The Islamic and Gregorian ...

Predicted to cost £39 billion, the cube-shaped Mukaab supertall skyscraper in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, will be ...

The map below shows the location of Jerusalem and Mecca. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...