Having just experienced her first Haj, this writer shares a journey laden with beautiful architecture, friendly faces, and ...

Sireen Karim, a middle-age kindergarten teacher dressed in black, gestures at the mass of stone that dominates the ... Two concentric rings of marble and porphyry columns and piers encircle ...

“There are about 1,000 balloons in each drop, so 2,000 balloons fall on the graduates at each ceremony,” says Anne Mecca, associate director for ... “I just call it a headband,” Poole says. A black ...

What you see today is only the upper third of the original massive stone tower. The best look at ... a bit off-center so it would point toward Mecca, rather than Jerusalem. (Long classified ...

IN the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.Once the pilgrims have completed the tawaf al-ifadah and sa’y on the Day of Sacrifice (i.e., the 10th day of Dhul-Hijjah), they all return to Mina ...

It currently consists of three sizable chunks with some fragments, is encircled by a stone ring, and is connected by a silver band. It was given to Adam when he left paradise, and according to Islamic ...

Pilgrims were set to perform the last major ritual of the hajj -- the "stoning of the devil" -- on Friday, as Muslims around ...

Pilgrims were performing the last major ritual of the hajj -- the "stoning of the devil" -- on Friday, as Muslims around the ...

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