Tuesday, August 31, 2010

MAKKAH



Makkah Province is a province of Saudi Arabia which has an area of 164 000 km ² and a population of 5,797,971 inhabitants (2004). Its capital is Mecca.
Mecca has a mosque called Masjid Al-Haram, in which there is a building called the Kaaba is the shrine for Muslims throughout the world. In the Kaaba, there is a black stone believed to come from heaven called the Black Stone.
In addition to Medina, Mecca is a city which also prohibits people who visit religion is not Islam. So we can be sure 100% of the population are Muslims of Mecca.
Mecca (and Madina) always visited by Muslims from around the world. They perform umrah or hajj worship there.

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