Pilgrims may also visit the holy city of Medina ... to Mecca for Hajj, according to Statistica, making it the world's largest human gathering. In Islamic tradition, the Black Stone, which is ...

Rare Islamic artefacts are to go on display in West Yorkshire, including pieces from the tomb of Prophet Muhammad. The ...

The $21 billion project, launched in 2011, is designed to meet the challenges of accommodating the millions of pilgrims who visit Mecca and Medina every ... ancient wells and stone bridges.

They took the stone to their stronghold in modern-day ... the region in the west of Saudi Arabia where both Mecca and Medina are located. In A.D. 983, the rulers of Baghdad and Egypt were at ...

Mecca and Medina are the two holiest sites in Islam. Khan in November laid the foundation stone for the corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur — the final resting place ...

Millions of people visit Mecca and Medina annually (two million of them during the Hajj pilgrimage alone), a number that is only expected to grow rapidly in the coming years. However, one UK-based ...

One of the most efficient and comfortable ways to travel between Mecca and Medina the Haramain High-Speed Railway - a modern and reliable alternative to road travel. Launched in 2018, the Haramain ...