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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 Ibrahim together with his son Ismail, built the
Kaba. The Kaba, the centre of Islam, is a rectangular building
made of bricks. Around the Kaba is the great mosque, al-Haram,
and around the mosque, in between the mountains, are the houses
that make up Mecca.
Mecca was a central point on the caravan routes running over
the Arabian peninsula at the Time of Muhammad. Mecca was revered
as a holy city even before the first revelations came to Muhammad.
Mecca's importance as a centre of religious teaching must not
be exaggerated. Very soon in the beginning of the Muslim expansion,
religious teaching moved to other places in the Muslim world.
Mecca is important in two points: Centre of the compulsory pilgrimage,
and a focal point for all Muslims.
Today, many of the people living in Mecca are pilgrims wanting
to study Islam in the very centre of the world. But this learning
is primarily aimed at normal people, and even today Muslim theology
is exercised other places. But for Saudi Arabia, Mecca is the
centre of religious teaching.
Major Tourist attractions
Makkah
Madina
Jeddah
Mina
Kaaba
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