kaaba in English

noun

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a square stone building in the center of the Great Mosque at Mecca, the site most holy to Muslims and toward which they must face when praying. It stands on the site of a pre-Islamic shrine said to have been built by Abraham.

Use "kaaba" in a sentence

1. How to measure the exact direction of Kaaba?

2. Muslim worshippers circle the Kaaba at Mecca's Grand Mosque during Ramadan.

3. Courtyard west side is Queen Hatshepsut a small Kaaba .

4. The Kaaba has been repaired and reconstructed many times since Muhammad's day.

5. In the history of Islam Abraham/Ibrahim is the constructor of the Kaaba.

6. They were together while doing the tawaf, the circular walk around the Kaaba.

7. In this mosque is the Kaaba (the black building in the picture) which Muslims turn toward when praying.

8. Another showed the sun setting on Mecca, with its Kaaba (the big black box focus of pilgrim worship), in real time.

9. Muslim worshippers Circumambulate around the Kaaba Islams holiest shrine at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah

10. During the Hajj, Muslims uniformly Circumambulate around the Holy Kaaba in what is known as 'Tawaaf', irrespective of gender, nationality or sect.

11. Pilgrims perform a series of rituals including walking around the Kaaba, standing vigil on Mount Arafat and a ritual Stoning of the Devil.

12. Abrahah decided to avenge this act by demolishing the Kaaba and he advanced with an army towards Mecca.

13. According to tradition, the Kaaba was originally a temple constructed by the prophet Abraham and his son, Ishmael.

14. This made him extremely unpopular with his fellow townsmen because the pilgrimages to the Kaaba were the chief source of such prosperity as Mecca enjoyed.

15. In a normal year, many of those desperate to come before they die are pushed in wheelchairs or carried around the Kaaba and through the other rituals.

16. Then each of the four would lift a corner, and all four would equally receive the honor of carrying it back to the Kaaba.

17. They must gather at the plain of Arafat... perform a symbolic rejection of the devil at the Jamraat...and circle Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba.

18. Muslim pilgrims go around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca after morning prayers before the start of the hajj pilgrimage November 200

19. — Eva Dou, WSJ, "Chinese Surveillance Expands to Muslims Making Mecca Pilgrimage," 31 July 2018 Hajj pilgrims Circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, located in the center of the Masjid al

20. When the Quraysh were trying to stop his digging, he vowed that if he were to have ten sons to protect him, he would sacrifice one of them to Allah at the Kaaba.