Kaaba in a sentence

After Khalid bin Abdulaziz became King in 1975, the Mataf area was expanded and the stone pavement of the Masa was replaced with Greek, heat-resistant marble so that worshippers could circle the Kaaba more comfortably, especially at noon.

Currently, the company has two building blocks set— Kaaba in Makkah and Prophet's Mosque in Madinah.

Husin bin Nisan, second left, walks with other worshippers to circle a mock Kaaba during a hajj rehearsal in Tangerang, Indonesia, Monday, May 15, 2023.

The same procedure is repeated annually before Hajj season in order to protect the kiswa, as some pilgrims touch it when circling the Kaaba.

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Haj pilgrimage, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Jun 25, 2023.

Kaaba’s own name was muddied and in dire need of redemption.

Pilgrims wrapped up the Hajj amid the deadly summer heat on June 18 on the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba.

The Kiswa is made at King Abdulaziz Complex for Holy Kaaba Kiswa with over 100 workers involved in dyeing, electric weaving, printing, embroidery and then assembling the different parts of the Kiswa, according to Arab News.

The opportunity to pray at the Holy Kaaba and visit the Prophet’s Mosque in Medinah was deeply moving.

But the Kaaba is usually packed with Muslims who visit the Grand Mosque for "Umrah" throughout the year.

Muslim worshippers circumambulate the sacred Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, on March 7, 2020.

Relationships were also put to the test, let's just say it has been one of the toughest year most of us had ever seen, some of us had never seen or heard of either the Kaaba or Vatican been shut.

The most dramatic closure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, however, took place in 1979 when religious extremists stormed Islam's holiest site, which houses the cube-shaped Kaaba that Muslims pray toward and circulate during pilgrimage.

But for most, it means sleeping in simple accommodations or even spending weeks sleeping on the ground around Mecca’s Grand Mosque to perform daily prayers and rites near the Kaaba ahead of the hajj.

He maintained that Caverton should have carried out an assessment and risk test at the Kaaba stadium before the flight.

According to that hypothesis, the Kaaba was first consecrated to a supreme deity named Allah and then hosted the pantheon of Quraysh after their conquest of Mecca, about a century before the time of Muhammad.

A drawing of the Kaaba's black stone in fragmented form, front and side illustrations.

All of these prayers are recited while facing in the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and forms an important aspect of the Muslim Ummah.

A man from the Himyarite Kingdom was sent by Abraha to advise them that Abraha only wished to demolish the Kaaba and if they resisted, they would be crushed.

Rodinson (2002), p. 261. Most Meccans converted to Islam and Muhammad proceeded to destroy all the statues of Arabian gods in and around the Kaaba.