Santiago de Compostela is one of the major centres of Christianity in the world — but the city’s sense of spirituality goes ...

For the second year, pilgrims travelling through the Haj Committee of India have complained about crowding at the residential ...

Saudi Arabia will resume issuing Umrah visas starting June 10, 2025, welcoming international pilgrims from June 11. This ...

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The Kingdom's Ministry of Hajj and Umrah had earlier confirmed the start of the new Umrah season which means new batches of ...

The Hajj pilgrimage is held annually between the 8th and 13th days of Zil-Hajj, the 12th month on the Islamic lunar calendar.

More than 1.5 million Muslims from around the world gathered in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the Hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage to ...

Muslims extol the shrine as Islam’s most important site after Mecca and Medina ... Christian city; they note its cupola is almost identical in size to the Holy Sepulchre’s largest dome.

As pilgrims walk through the sweltering heat, navigating expensive hotels and meticulously planned itineraries, one question ...

Huge crowds of pilgrims "stoned the devil" in the last major ritual of the hajj pilgrimage on Friday, as Muslims around the ...

Beneath technicolour cedarwood ceilings, maps show Moroccan empires that once encompassed nearly the entire Iberian peninsula ...