Kiswah is Being Lowered After Hajj

The Kiswah is being lowered right now, as the Hajj season comes to an end.

In The Hajj time , Kiswa was rolled up slightly. Every year of Dhul Hajj they chnaging the new kiswa.

Kaaba gets new Kiswa, embroidered with 120kg of gold threads

A Saudi worker sews Islamic calligraphy in gold thread on a drape to cover the Kaaba at the Kiswa factory in the holy city of Makkah.

Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, was dressed in its new Kiswa (the cloth that covers the Kaaba) after Fajr prayer on Sunday by as many as 86 technicians and weavers.

The Kaaba is dressed in its new Kiswa on the Day of Arafat every year. During the same daym, the Grand Mosque is usually empty because all the pilgrims are gathered in Arafat.

The Makkawis, especially women, avail this opportunity to spend the entire day in the Grand Mosque praying and doing tawaf (circumambulation) around the Kaaba.

The Kiswa is made of pure silk with gold threads at the cost of more than SR22 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.

Some 86 technicians and weavers take part in changing the Kiswa (the cloth that covers the Kaaba) in the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Sunday. The Kiswa is changed once a year when pilgrims leave for the plains of Arafat for Haj.