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Architectural Building Attractions In Mecca

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Mecca (; Arabic: مكة‎ Makkah is a city in the Hejazi region of the Arabian Peninsula, and the plain of Tihamah in Saudi Arabia, and is also the capital and administrative headquarters of the Makkah Region. The city is located 70 km inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m above sea level, and 340 kilometres south of Medina. Its resident population in 2012 was roughly 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the Ḥajj period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhūl-Ḥijjah . As the birthplace of Muhammad, and the site of Muhammad's first revelation of the Quran , Mecca is regarded as the...
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Architectural Building Attractions In Mecca

  • 1. Kaaba Mecca
    The Kaaba , also referred as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah , is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, that is Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām , in the Hejazi city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayṫ Allāh , and has a similar role to the Tabernacle and Holy of Holies in Judaism. Its location determines the qiblah . Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba when performing Ṣalâṫ . One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim who is able to do so to perform the Hajj at least once in their lifetime. Multiple parts of the hajj require pilgrims to make Tawaf seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction. Tawaf is also performed by pilgrims during the ‘Umrah ...
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  • 2. Abraj Al-Bait Towers Mecca
    The Abraj Al-Bait is a government-owned megatall complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project that strives to modernize the city in catering to its pilgrims. The central hotel tower, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, A Fairmont Hotel, has the world's largest clock face and is the third-tallest building and fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. The building complex is metres away from the world's largest mosque and Islam's most sacred site, the Great Mosque of Mecca. The developer and contractor of the complex is the Saudi Binladin Group, the Kingdom's largest construction company. It is the world's most expensive building with the total cost of construction equaling US$15 billion. The complex was built a...
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