Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, to be fully covered with kiswa

Saudi workers embroider Islamic calligraphy, using either pure silver threads or silver threads covered with gold, on the final stages in the preparation of a drape, or Kiswa, that covers the Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure at the heart the Grand Mosque, at the Kiswa factory in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Oct.6, 2013. The Kiswa covering the Kaaba, is changed every year marking Muslims annual Hajj or pilgrimage which will fall this year on Oct.14. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, to be fully covered in its new Kiswa (the cloth that covers the Kaaba), on Monday.
The Kaaba – located in Saudi’s Makkah city – has already received its new kiswa in September.
The Kaaba is dressed in its new Kiswa on the Day of Arafat every year. During the same day, the Grand Mosque is usually empty because all the pilgrims are gathered in Arafat.
The Kiswa is made of pure silk with gold threads at the cost of more than SR22 million ($5.8 million). It is manufactured in a special factory in Makkah which is manned by 240 technicians, weavers and administrators.
The Kiswa is 95 centimeters wide and nine meters high. It is made upon 47 pieces which are joined together to cover all the corners of the Kaaba.

Source: Alarabiya

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