This summer, the world’s largest clock began its first official duty: marking time during Ramadan in Mecca—Islam’s holiest city. This colossal clock bears a striking resemblance to Big Ben, and the ...

At 12:27 PM Mecca time today, the sun will be directly above the Kaaba. This causes no shadows around the Kaaba, letting Muslims worldwide check their prayer direction. The event happens twice a year ...

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) could be replaced by "Mecca Time," if a group of Muslim leaders get their way. At the conference, "Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice," Muslim scientists and ...

In a severe case of clock envy, Saudi Arabia has erected a nearly 2,000-foot-high timepiece intended to stake a symbolic claim for Mecca as the world’s center. Islamic scholars have proposed that the ...

The triumph of Saudi science, as reported by the Telegraph: A standard time by which other clocks were set was needed to organise global travel and communications, but in the Islamic world the idea ...

Today at 12:27 PM Mecca time, the sun will be directly above the Kaaba, causing no shadows to appear. This rare event happens twice a year due to Earth’s tilt and Mecca’s latitude. It offers Muslims ...