READER ADS: FREE online business | PUT YOUR AD HERE - FREE Click to open Encyclopaedia of the Orient on its front page Mecca Arabic: makka City in Saudi Arabia with 618, 000 inhabitants. Mecca is located about 80 km from the Red Sea Coast, around a natural well. Mecca is the most holy city in Islam. The city is revered from being the first place created on earth, as well as the place where ...
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Ka aba The House Of Allah In the province of Hejaz in the western part of Arabia, not far from the Red Sea, there lies the town of Makka. In the centre of this town there is a small square building made of stones, about 60 feet long, 60 feet wide and 60 feet high. Since time immemorial this town and this stone built house has been known to world travellers. This is Baitullah, the House of Allah.
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Special issue with the Sunday Magazine From the publishers of THE HINDU on indiaserver.com Faith : September 23, 2001 The Kaaba GUARDING THE CENTRE, GENERATING THE CIRCUMFERENCE H. Masud Taj The author is a poet, architect and architecture critic, raised in Ooty and Mumbai and now resident in Ottawa. We are all born with six fundamental orientations: front and back, left and right, up and down.
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