These keepsakes symbolize their "journey of a lifetime" and serve as cherished reminders of their spiritual pilgrimage. The market for gifts and souvenirs bought by visitors to the Holy Mosque ...

One of the five pillars of Islam is that each believer is called, at least once in their lives, to make the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that starts and ends in the holy city of Mecca located in ...

Some two million Muslims from across the world have begun the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. They started at sunset on Wednesday by circling the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's ...

More than 1.8 million visitors had arrived by midday local time on Tuesday, authorities said. More than 2.5 million Muslims will on Friday begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in the Islamic holy city ...

Mask-clad Muslims circled Islam's holiest site along socially distanced paths on Sunday, as Saudi authorities partially resumed the year-round umrah pilgrimage ... holy city of Mecca in batches ...