enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Mecca - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca

   Mecca (/ ˈmɛkə /; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, [a] commonly shortened to Makkah[b]) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam. [4] It is 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley 277 m (909 ft) above sea level.

3. Masjid al-Haram - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_al-Haram

   Masjid al-Haram (Arabic: ٱَلْمَسْجِدُ ٱلْحَرَام‎, romanized: al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, lit. 'The Sacred Mosque'), [4] also known as the Sacred Mosque or the Great Mosque of Mecca, [5] is considered to be the most significant mosque in Islam. [6][7] It encloses the vicinity of the Kaaba in Mecca, in the Mecca Province of ...

4. Kaaba - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba

   The Kaaba, [b] sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, [d] is a stone building at the center of Islam 's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [2][3][4] It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayt Allah (Arabic: بَيْت ٱللَّٰه, lit.

5. The Clock Towers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_Towers

   The Clock Towers. The Clock Towers (Arabic: أبراج الساعة, romanized: Abrāj al-Sāʿat, lit. 'Towers of the Clock', formerly known as Abraj Al Bait), is a government-owned complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project that aims to modernize the city in ...

6. Mecca Gate - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca_gate

   The Gate of Mecca, Mecca Gate or Makkah Gate (Arabic: بوابة مكة Bawwābāt Makka), also known as Qur'an Gate (Arabic: بوابة القرآن Bawwābāt al-Qurʾān), is an arch gateway monumental on the Makkah al-Mukkarramah road of the Jeddah–Makkah Highway. It is the entrance to Mecca, the birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ...

7. Jabal al-Nour - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabal_al-Nour

   Hijaz Mountains. Jabal al-Nour (Arabic: جَبَل ٱلنُّوْر, romanized:Jabal an-Nūr, lit. 'Mountain of the Light' or 'Hill of the Illumination') is a mountain near Mecca in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. [ 1 ] The mountain houses the grotto or cave of Hira (Arabic: غَار حِرَاء, romanized:Ghar-i-Hira, lit. 'Cave of Hira ...

8. Qibla - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla

   The qibla is the direction of the Kaaba, a cube-like building at the centre of the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca, in the Hijaz region of Saudi Arabia. Other than its role as qibla, it is also the holiest site for Muslims, also known as the House of God (Bayt Allah) and where the tawaf (the circumambulation ritual) is performed during the Hajj and umrah pilgrimages.

9. Prophet's Mosque - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet's_Mosque

   The Prophet's Mosque (Arabic: ٱلْمَسْجِد ٱلنَّبَوِي ‎, romanized: al-Masjid al-Nabawī, lit. 'Mosque of the Prophet') is the second mosque built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Medina, after that of Quba, as well as the second largest mosque and holiest site in Islam, after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, in the Saudi region of the Hejaz. [2]