Take a flight of discovery high above the spiritual heart of Islam and experience this sight from a breathtaking aerial perspective. This drone footage captures the grandeur of Mecca, highlighting the ...

It must have been a surprise to them, their journalist daughter deciding to take the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. “Take your mom,” my dad suggested. “I want to do it alone, I want this to be ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, Abdu remembers roller skating with friends near ...

It begins in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, which has been controlled by Saudi Arabia since the 1920s. The Quran states that this is where Ibrahim was called upon to sacrifice his son Ismail as a ...

Mecca is the religion’s most iconic destination. But these exquisite mosques and shrines found from Tunisia to Syria also honor its sacred history. The skyline of Jerusalem’s Old City is ...

Earlier this week, the Muslim World League, a Saudi-backed alliance of Islamic NGOs, wrapped up a little-noticed three-day conference in Mecca on “Islam and Counterterrorism.” With the patrona ...

As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that time, Mecca was so small ...

The 17th century portico – one of the oldest parts of the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest – is being removed by Mecca authorities as part of an expansion project to create more space for ...

Mecca is a place that is holy to all Muslims. It is so holy that no non-Muslim is allowed to enter. For Muslims, the Hajj is the fifth and final pillar of Islam. It occurs in the month of Dhul ...