In Saudi Arabia, the government prepared for the reopening of around 90,000 mosques after sanitizing prayer rugs, washrooms and shelves holding copies of the Qur’an, the Muslim holy book.

Cairo: Three emergency centres are operating inside the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site in the Saudi city of Mecca to serve worshippers converging on the place from inside and outside the ...

Cairo: Saudi Arabia has introduced into the Grand Mosque in Mecca the second artificial intelligence-powered robot to answer religious queries from Muslims gathering in the kingdom to perform the ...

In June 2025, footage on TikTok and YouTube showed lines of large mechanized umbrellas opening above pedestrians and giving them shade. The captions for these videos stated these were high-tech ...

A Saudi worshipper wearing a face mask and gloves as he prays dawn prayers at al-Mirabi Mosque in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, May 31, 2020. The Ministry of Islamic Affairs said mosques will open ...