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Google has announced that it will show prayers live from Makkah during Ramadan on its video-sharing service, YouTube.
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Muslims angered at the prospect of rowdy revelers descending onto Qatar for the 2022 World Cup games have been told to make a pilgrimage to Mecca during the tournament. 
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The Holy City of Makkah is undergoing a makeover courtesy of more than 440 artists from all over the world. Muslim artists have been invited to submit their original works of art, with an Islamic theme of course, to be considered as one of the contenders in making Islam’s most revered city just a bit more beautiful and artistically sound. 
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The giant clock of Makkah is all set to tick home a new time standard, as some scholars believe that it will be an ideal alternative to the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
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Mike Tyson recently posted this picture on his twitter account during his visit to Mecca
By elan on Muslims from www.elanthemag.com
Throngs of fans crowded former boxing champion (and convert) Mike Tyson this week, as he took a spiritual tour of Mecca, while performing Umrah, that ended in tears: tears of awakening. Tyson toured the requisite sites, finally crying at the Prophet’s Mosque, saying: “I couldn’t resist shedding tears when I came to know that I was in one of the gardens of paradise.” 
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Former boxing champion Mike Tyson, who converted to Islam while in jail in the 1990s, is visiting the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina on pilgrimage, a Saudi daily reported on Saturday. 
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The first phase of the Makkah Monorail project is expected to be completed before this year's Haj, according to a report. By Saladin on Videos from www.cnn.com
Hajj is the world’s largest annual pilgrimage that takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Last year VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi went with his family and shot footage with an old Handicam. His intention was never to make a VBS doc out of it, but lo and behold here it is…shaky camerawork and all. The next Hajj is expected to fall between November 14-18, 2010. 
