The General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque has completed on Thursday the annual customary ceremony of replacing the Kiswa (cover) of the Holy Kaaba, ...

Saudi Arabia has replaced the Kaaba’s Kiswa as the Hijrah year 1447 begins. The Kaaba is considered the "House of Allah" and ...

Mokhtar Alim Shaqdar is the official calligrapher of the kiswa, the black covering of the Holy Kaaba. Shaqdar replaced his predecessor Abdulraheem Bokhari, who died in 1996 at the age of 90.

Inside the Kaaba, there are eight stones decorated with Arabic calligraphy using Thuluth script and one stone decorated with Arabic calligraphy using Kufic script. The words on the stones are made ...

Abu Dhabi: A Ka’aba cover from the time of the longest reigning Ottoman emperor nearly 500 years ago was the highlight of the 23rd Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF 2013) that concluded ...

What is the Kaaba made of? The Kaaba is made of granite from the hills near Mecca. The structure is 50 feet high (15.24 meters), 35 feet (10.67 meters) wide and 40 feet long (12.19 meters) long.

Ka'aba kiswa hand-over ceremony at the kiswa factory Makkah: Shaikh Saleh Bin Abdul Rahman Al Hussain, head of the Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, will hand over the new cover ...

Verse 47 of Surah Al Ahzab is written on the gifted Kisaw in the Thuluth style of Arabic calligraphy and its location is under the Kaaba’s belt section ... The recently gifted piece of the Kaaba Kiswa ...

Mukhtar Alam Sikder, a Bangladeshi expatriate and a calligrapher of the Holy Kaaba Kiswa, ... From 1978, he studied for two years in the calligraphy school run by the Grand Mosque of Mecca.