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

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 ...

You can start this week. The price tag on the Great Mosque of Mecca is admittedly a bit deceiving. Although the building is certainly massive and extravagant, the oldest parts of the mosque have been ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

Terengganu ustaz Mohd Shukri Ali’s Quranic recitation style closely resembles that of Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, grand imam of the Great Mosque of Mecca.

The oldest mosques in the world bear witness to the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula to across the globe.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

He walked into the Masjid al-Haram Mosque, or the Great Mosque of Mecca, and was given the honor to enter the Kaaba, the shrine at the center of the mosque, the statement said. "Then the head of ...

The price tag on the Great Mosque of Mecca is admittedly a bit deceiving. Although the building is certainly massive and extravagant, the oldest parts of the mosque have been around since the 16th ...