Topic: Grand Mosque

France makes way for Grand Mosque

French Muslims celebrated a milestone on Thursday when work began to build a Grand Mosque in Marseille, the country's biggest and a potent symbol of Islam's place in modern France. A day after the French government approved a bill banning the full ...

Hajj winds up with last prayers, souvenir rush

Stoning the devil and circling the Mecca Grand Mosque's kaaba shrine, two million pilgrims began the final rituals of the hajj on Saturday ahead of a massive exodus from Islam's holiest city. Tens of thousands of the faithful circled the black cubic ...

2.5 million Muslim pilgrims in Saudi for hajj

An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly stampedes. This year's hajj is also taking place amid fears of the spread of ...

Muslim pilgrims converge in Saudi city for hajj

An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly stampedes. All of this year's pilgrims were due in the holy city by the ...