More than 1,300 people died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities announced ...

Muslim pilgrims in Mecca circled the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, and then converged on a vast tent camp in the nearby desert, officially opening the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Monday, returning to its ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane July 17, 2017 2017-07-16T20:01:54-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/906/1500323652.jpgManal Al-Sharif described Mecca and the Hajj ...

In recent years, modernization has transformed Islam's holiest city. See how new technology and the increasing number of pilgrims has forced Islam's holiest city to modernize in a number of ways.