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  • The Sacred Sites in Mecca are ritually important sites in Mecca that were mentioned in the Quran and are visited by pilgrims during the annual Hajj. These...
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    lit. 'The Sacred Mosque'), also known as the Sacred Mosque or the Great Mosque of Mecca, is considered to be the most significant mosque in Islam. It...
    44 KB (4,029 words) - 18:48, 24 January 2025
  • List of sacred languages List of shrines Pilgrimage Place of worship Religious symbolism Sacred architecture Sacred travel Sacred sites in Mecca "Philosophy...
    69 KB (7,545 words) - 20:07, 28 January 2025
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    Mecca (/ˈmɛkə/; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia;...
    109 KB (11,907 words) - 14:05, 22 January 2025
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    Ḥaramayn Ṭayyibayn. Mecca is considered the holiest city in Islam, as it is home to Islam's holiest site Kaaba in Al-Masjid Al-Ḥaram (The Sacred Mosque). Only...
    58 KB (6,950 words) - 17:00, 26 January 2025
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    around the two holiest cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina. The demolition has focused on mosques, burial sites, homes and historical locations associated...
    24 KB (2,412 words) - 21:02, 18 December 2024
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    the three Holiest sites in Islam being, respectively, the Masjid al-Haram (including the Kaaba), in Mecca; the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, in Medina; and Al-Masjid...
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    Shrine (redirect from Sacred Sites)
    sacred place.[citation needed] Islam's holiest structure, the Kaaba (within the Al-Haram Mosque) in the city of Mecca, though an ancient temple (in the...
    56 KB (6,258 words) - 21:50, 21 January 2025
  • of The Mailbox in Birmingham, UK The Cube (restaurant), a travelling pop-up restaurant Kaaba (English: The Cube), a sacred site in Mecca, Saudi Arabia...
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    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...
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  • Muhammad, the final Islamic prophet, was born and lived in Mecca for the first 53 years of his life (c. 570–622 CE) until the Hijra. This period of his...
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    at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is considered by Muslims to be the Baytullah...
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    born inside the Ka'ba, the ancient shrine in the city of Mecca which later became the most sacred site in Islam. Ali was born to Abu Talib and his wife...
    4 KB (398 words) - 05:32, 14 November 2024
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    20 November and 4 December 1979 at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, the holiest Islamic site in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The building was besieged by up to 600 militants...
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    the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic...
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    dwelling place, and similarly the people of Mecca can assume lhram from Mecca. The Ḥaram is the sacred precinct of Mecca within which certain acts are considered...
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    The Sack of Mecca occurred on 11 January 930, when the Qarmatians of Bahrayn sacked the Muslim holy city amidst the rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage. The...
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    the site. The Al-Aqsa mosque compound, atop the site, is the second oldest mosque in Islam, and one of the three Sacred Mosques, the holiest sites in Islam;...
    276 KB (34,673 words) - 14:51, 21 January 2025
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    al-Haram in Mecca (which is called Ḥaraman Āminan (حَرَمًا آمِنًا, "Sanctuary (which is) Secure") in the Quran (28:57; 29:67), and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina...
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  • black cubical building at the center of the Grand Mosque of Mecca; it is the most sacred site in Islam Tefillin, a small black leather cube used by Jews during...
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