{"id":6606,"date":"2023-07-20T07:09:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6606"},"modified":"2023-07-20T07:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:09:54","slug":"kaaba-adorned-with-new-kiswa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6606","title":{"rendered":"Kaaba adorned with new kiswa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"printable-area shareable\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2340561\/saudi-arabia\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The holy Kaaba on Wednesday morning was adorned with a new kiswa, which is the cloth covering the structure throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques completed the task under the supervision of the body\u2019s President Sheikh Dr. Abdurrahman Al-Sudais, the Saudi Press Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The replacement was carried out by 200 technicians from the King Abdulaziz Complex for Holy Kaaba Kiswa.<\/p>\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-109681369_148=\"5276\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-109681369_148=\"5276\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-109681369_148=\"1\">The new covering consists of four separate sides and a door curtain. It is manufactured from about 850 kg of raw silk, 120 kg of gold thread, and 100 kg of silver thread.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-109681369_148=\"5276\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-109681369_148=\"5276\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-109681369_148=\"1\">SOURCE ARAB NEWS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"AV63ff261ed89a2ef3040fdce4\">\n<div id=\"aniBox\">\n<div id=\"aniplayer_AV63ff261ed89a2ef3040fdce4-1689793698352\">\n<div id=\"aniplayer_AV63ff261ed89a2ef3040fdce4-1689793698352gui\">\n<div id=\"av-caption\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"av-container\" class=\" av-desktop hide-controls\">\n<div id=\"av-inner\">\n<div id=\"slot\">\n<div id=\"imgpreloader\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"preloader\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"videoslot\" class=\"loaded\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"gui\">\n<div id=\"buttons\">\n<div id=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"aniview-credit\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ad-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"anibid\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-shares-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holy Kaaba on Wednesday morning was adorned with a new kiswa, which is the cloth covering the structure throughout the year. The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques completed the task under the supervision of the body\u2019s President Sheikh Dr. Abdurrahman Al-Sudais, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The replacement was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6608,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions\/6608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}