The Grand Mosque in Makkah recorded its highest single-day number of Umrah pilgrims, with nearly half a million worshipers performing the pilgrimage in a single day on Wednesday.

Bill Clinton toured Senegal’s Grand Mosque in 1998, while Joe Biden visited the same Abu Dhabi mosque while serving as Barack Obama’s vice president in 2016. 5.

Multi-billion-riyal project aimed to increase the mosque’s capacity Dubai: For the first time in over a decade, the skyline of Mecca’s Grand Mosque stands unobstructed — free of the towering ...