IQNA – Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans to develop a cable car system to improve access to the Cave of Hira in Mecca’s Jabal Al Noor, with the project slated for completion by 2025.
News ID: 3489544 Publish Date : 2024/08/18
IQNA – Saudi Arabia confirmed that its security forces have removed hundreds of thousands of unregistered pilgrims from Mecca in anticipation of the upcoming Hajj, which commences next week.
News ID: 3488673 Publish Date : 2024/06/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Unvaccinated worshippers are allowed to enter Islam’s two holiest sites in Mecca and Median with strings attached.
News ID: 3479947 Publish Date : 2022/08/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Farid Ahmed is a member of a group of Christchurch mosque attack survivors and their families who have returned home in New Zealand from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
News ID: 3479945 Publish Date : 2022/08/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The first batch of the pilgrims coming from outside Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah during the Umrah season for this year 1444 AH arrived in Mecca on Saturday.
News ID: 3479912 Publish Date : 2022/07/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – One of the Fiqhi (jurisprudential) issues related to the uprising of Imam Hussein (AS) is his unfinished Hajj pilgrimage. The Imam (AS) was present in Mecca but left the city for Kufa in the middle of the Hajj.
News ID: 3479865 Publish Date : 2022/07/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A retrial has been ordered in the Mecca Grand Mosque crane crash case, with the acquittal of the defendants overturned.
News ID: 3479850 Publish Date : 2022/07/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia started receiving requests for booking and issuing special permits to perform Umrah for domestic and foreign pilgrims through the Eatmarna application.
News ID: 3479840 Publish Date : 2022/07/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Association of Yemen’s Scholars said the Saudi rulers are not qualified to run the affairs of the holy sites in Mecca and Medina.
News ID: 3479804 Publish Date : 2022/07/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi authorities have arrested a Saudi citizen who has allegedly facilitates the entry of an Israeli journalist into Mecca, defying ban on entry of non-Muslims.
News ID: 3479787 Publish Date : 2022/07/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Over 10 million Umrah pilgrims are expected to travel to Mecca and Medina in the coming Umrah season, which will start on July 30.
News ID: 3479785 Publish Date : 2022/07/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An Israeli reporter visited the holy city of Mecca, where non-Muslims are not allowed, just days after US President Joe Biden visited Saudi Arabia with a push for normalization on his agenda.
News ID: 3479756 Publish Date : 2022/07/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The amount of Zamzam water distributed at the Grand Mosque in Mecca during this year’s Hajj period was 12 million liters, official figures showed.
News ID: 3479732 Publish Date : 2022/07/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Office of Representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs organized a Quranic circle in the holy city of Mecca.
News ID: 3479727 Publish Date : 2022/07/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Participants in an online seminar held in Mecca on Hajj diplomacy underlined the potentials of the annual pilgrimage in enhancing economic and cultural relations among Muslims and in countering extremism.
News ID: 3479710 Publish Date : 2022/07/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced the resumption of issuing Umrah visas that had been suspended during the Hajj season.
News ID: 3479707 Publish Date : 2022/07/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hajj pilgrims performed the Tawaf Al-Wida (farewell Tawaf) at the Grand Mosque in Mecca before leaving the holy city.
News ID: 3479683 Publish Date : 2022/07/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A newly-introduced state-of-the-art service has been launched at the Grand Mosque in Mecca this year to distribute Islam's holy book of Quran to worshippers and Pilgrims.
News ID: 3479670 Publish Date : 2022/07/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Located at the foot of a mountain in the south of Mina, Masjid al-Khayf is the most important mosque in Mina.
News ID: 3479662 Publish Date : 2022/07/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The governor of the Mecca Region and president of Saudi Arabia’s Central Hajj Committee said this year’s Hajj season has been a success.
News ID: 3479661 Publish Date : 2022/07/11
