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Kaaba
cubical shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; direction of prayer for Muslims
Details
- Instance of
- sacred place, cube, building
- Inception
- 6th century
- Has parts
- kiswah, Black Stone, Kaaba door, corners of the Kaaba
- Location
- Al-Masjid Al-Haram
- Located in
- Mecca
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Religion
- Islam
- Area
- 119
- depicted by
- 🕋
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New International Encyclopedia (1902–1905), Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed., The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Islamskiy entsiklopedicheskiy slovar', Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Islam: an encyclopedic dictionary, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition
- height
- 12.95 m
- IPA transcription
- al.ˈkaʕ.ba, al.ˈkaʕ.ba‿l.mu.ˈʃar.ra.fa
- length
- 11.68 m, 9.90 m, 12.04 m, 10.18 m
- native label
- الكعبة, الكعبة المشرفة
- topic's main category
- Category:Kaaba
- Unicode character
- 🕋
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
Depicted in
- 🕋
- Ceramic tile with a picture of the Ka'ba (TIEM 827)
- The honoured Ka‘bah and the Meccan sanctuary
- 'Alexander Visits the Ka'bah', Folio from a Copy of Firdawsi's Shahnamah
- Panoramic View of Mecca
- Talismanic Shirt with Depictions of the Two Holy Sanctuaries
- Pilgrimage Certificate
- Chinese scroll with the text of surat al-Hajj
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