What is the difference between Umrah and Hajj? How long does it take, and whether performing Umrah is as mandatory as Hajj?

The passengers, who were participating in the Umrah pilgrimage, were traveling between the two holiest cities in Islam, ...

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Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia 's grand mufti who served the kingdom's top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ultraconservative Muslim nation socially ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has begun. It’s required once in a lifetime by every Muslim who can afford it and is physically able to make it. The ...

Muslims do not worship the Kabah. The Kabah is just a cubic building of bricks in Makkah (Mecca), the holy capital of Islam. Every year, millions of Muslim pilgrims from all over the world travel to ...

Watch live as Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca circle the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, beginning the annual pilgrimage that is one of the five pillars of Islam. Read more about the ...

Watch a live view from the Grand Mosque in Mecca that houses the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site. Muslim pilgrims are arriving in Saudi Arabia ahead of the start of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage ...

A Muslim pilgrim enters the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, June 2, 2025 New video shows Judge Hannah Dugan with federal agents in moment that led to ...