(RNS) — The black, gold-embroidered cloth that shrouds Islam’s holiest site in Saudi Arabia is a revered artifact that ...

Newly surfaced files are raising eyebrows over how rare fragments of the Kaaba’s sacred Kiswa cloth allegedly reached Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida residence in 2017. Emails and shipment records point to ...

This shipment arrived at Epstein's home in March 2017, after he had already served a prison sentence and been convicted as a ...

Newly released Epstein files include emails detailing a controversial shipment of sacred cloth from the Kaaba in Makkah to the United States, arranged through contacts linked to the United Arab ...

From Pakistani shalwar-kurta references to a sacred Kaaba cloth from Mecca, newly released Epstein files reveal increasingly ...

The faith of up to 1.8 billion people, roughly a quarter of the world’s population, dictates each one of them pray five times a day in the direction of a small, cubic building in Saudi Arabia. This ...

Riyadh: The Kaaba, located in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is a highly sacred place for Muslims around the world. Muslims going for Hajj feel fortunate just to see the Kaaba and touch its wall.

at a cost of 25 million Saudi riyals ($6,650,000) Sami Mzayen, Supervisor at Kiswa factory: "The cloth of the holy Kaaba is made out of 56 golden pieces that covers it. Here in the department we have ...

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