Mecca is a holy city to Muslims, the Grand Mosque and the Kaaba, which is the kiss of Muslims in their prayers. Located west of Saudi Arabia, away from the Medina, about 400 kilometers in the south-west direction, and the city of Taif around 120 kilometers in the eastern direction, and just 72 kilometers from the city of Jeddah and the Red Sea coast, and the nearest ports it is the Jeddah Islamic Port, the closest international airports He is the King Abdul Aziz International Airport. Mecca is located at the intersection of 25/21 degrees north width, height 49/39 to the east, and this site is considered the most difficult geological formations, Most granite rocks very solid. City of Mecca area of about 850 square kilometers, 88 square kilometers of which are inhabited, and the central region of space surrounding the Holy Mosque about 6 square kilometers, and has a height of Mecca above sea level of about 277 meters.
Was at the beginning a small village located in a dry valley surrounded by mountains on all sides, and then people began to trickle out and stability in the era of Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Ismail, and that after leaving the Prophet Ibrahim, his wife Hagar and son Ishmael in this arid desert valley, in compliance to the order of God, The survival in the valley until the outbreak of the well of Zamzam, began during that period lifted rules Kaaba at the hands of the prophet Abraham and his son Ishmael.
The number of inhabitants of Mecca, according to statistics in 2010, about 1.675 million people spread over the old and new districts of Mecca. Mecca includes many of the features of the Islamic holy, perhaps most notably the Grand Mosque which is the most sacred places on earth for Muslims because it houses the Kaaba kiss Muslims in prayer, as it is one of the three mosques that pulls the backpacker, according to the words of the Prophet Muhammad: "Do not stretch Backpacker except to three mosques and mosques of the Grand Mosque and the Al-Aqsa Mosque "In addition, Mecca is the intent of the Muslims in the Hajj and Umrah season as it includes areas frequented by Muslims through a Muzdalifah, Mina and Arafat.
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