Grand Mosque Mecca Stories

It is feared that the death toll could be higher, as more than half of the victims were unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extre...

Pilgrims participated in the third and final symbolic stoning of the devil, after which they headed to Mecca to perform the "tawaf," - the final circl...

Stampedes, tent fires and other accidents have caused hundreds of deaths during Hajj in the past 30 years, forcing the Saudi government to build new i...

Known locally as the Djamaa El-Djazair, the modernist structure extends across 27.75 hectares (almost 70 acres), and is smaller only than the two mosq...