Pilgrims immunised against Covid-19 circled Islam's holiest site in Saudi Arabia's Mecca city Tuesday as they performed the year-round umrah pilgrimage on the first day of the fasting month of ...

Live from the Grand Mosque in Mecca where Muslims gather for prayers as Saudi Arabia began observing the holy month of Ramadan on Saturday along with many other countries in the world. The Grand ...

Ramadan 2025: Saudi Arabia's Mecca and Medina mosques to accommodate 10,000 Itikaf worshippers. 2w. C airo: Saudi authorities have completed preparations for accommodating 10,000 Muslim ...

March 1 (UPI) --Ramadan began Friday evening, marking the start of the holy month for some 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide. "The Supreme Court has decided that tomorrow, Saturday, is the first day ...

Ramadan will run from the evening of Wednesday, March 22 to Thursday, April 20 in 2023. ... The other pillars include faith, prayer, and making the pilgrimage to Mecca.

The central courtyard of the Great Mosque of Mecca, housing the famed Kaaba, saw worshippers, their face masks on, standing apart in much smaller numbers than the millions of people of the past ...

Fifty-five miles north, in Mecca, Alvaro Bautista balanced his 170-pound frame on the fronds of a 10-foot tall date palm. He held a green squeeze bottle filled with pollen to spray on the date ...

In 2023, Ramadan will start on Wednesday, March 22, and last through Thursday, April 20. To determine when exactly the holy month will begin, Muslim-majority countries look to local moon sighters ...

While Muslims commemorated one of Ramadan's holiest nights below, an Arab astronaut showed how brightly Mecca and Medina are lit up while looking down from space. In a video posted to Twitter ...

Dubai: With Ramadan in full swing, Saudi Arabia has ramped up operations on its Haramain High Speed Railway, deploying more than 3,400 trips throughout the holy month to accommodate a sharp ...

Ms. Jones lives in Anchorage, home to Alaska’s only mosque — some 6,700 miles west of Mecca, in a commercial district of the city, next to a sports bar and an insulation contractor’s office ...