Islam's holiest site in the Saudi city of Mecca to serve worshippers converging on the place from inside and outside the kingdom. The centres are housed in the King Fahd Expansion (first floor ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Earlier this year, my mother asked me to take her to Mecca in western Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, or the ...

Guidance, Quran sessions planned for performers of spiritual Islamic rite A pilgrim prays amid heavy rains in the Grand Mosque in Mecca ... Holy Mosques/file Cairo: Saudi authorities have ...

Officials have alleged that citizens from other nations have been visiting Saudi Arabia with Umrah visas or visit visas and overstaying illegally to perform Hajj at holy Mecca. Saudi Arabia's ...

Saudi Arabia has launched the “Road to Makkah” initiative in five countries, including Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Morocco and Bangladesh for the fourth consecutive year since its launching for the ...

in Makkah or Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Kabba is Islam's most sacred site, and Hajj is considered one of the five pillars of Islam. The Hajj pilgrimage takes place during the 12th Islamic month of Dhul ...