Added: 09/09/2005 |
Mecca is the city of Muslim religious pilgrimsIn the city of Mecca , the spiritual center of an islam , sacred city of Moslems of all world ( in Mecca about 570 years our era . The founder of an islam prophet Muhammad was born ), there is a Sacred mosque to Jaras ( " Al-Masege Al-Haram " ), the borrowing area in 309 thousand the sq. m. , known since 1570 . The mosque represents a majestic building with nine minarets which height reaches 95 m. , reveted by gentle-lilac marble . Inside of a mosque conduct 4 gate except for which there are 44 more others of an input . The mosque to Jaras is contained simultaneously up to 700 thousand by person .
In the center of a mosque on the area which have been laid out by marble slabs, there is sanctuary Kaaba which Moslems name " Al-Bait Al-Haram " that means " the sacred house ". Corners Kaaba are focused on the parties of light. Kaaba it is covered by a black silk coverlet which varies yearly. The top part covered decorate sayings embroidered in gold from the Koran. The door in Kaaba is made of pure gold and 286 kg weigh. In east corner of Kaaba the Black stone ( Al-Hadgar Al-Esvad ), bordered is built in by a silver rim. A number of scientists considers, that it is a meteorite.
According to Muslim tradition, the God granted this stone to Adam expelled from paradise after its repentance. Under the legend, originally the stone was white color and only in due course became black from a touch of sinners. In several meters from Kaaba there is also other relic - a stone to Poppies Ibragim on which the print of foot of Ibragim ( Avraam in the Bible ) was kept. In a mosque to Jaras there is also sacred source Zam-zam, which has been granted Ismail, when it with mother Hadzhar ( Agar in the Bible ) , died in desert of thirst.
Around of it then also there was Mecca. Water from source zam-zam acts on pipes in internal premises of a mosque where there are special places for ablution and drink, and by the way, water is really surprisingly pleasant on taste. In general the islam has arisen in the beginning of VII century in Mecca, when Mohammed (nearby 570) was born as a founder of islam.
In Medina it has been buried in 632 . Vicinity in radius of 18 km also are considered as the "sacred" ground on which has no the right to step any foreigner. Last decades in connection with growth of a petroleum industry there were greater modern cities - Dahran, ports Dammam and Al-Dju-Bell in Persian gulf. The center of Medina borrows an extensive covered market, it adjoined with the Greater mosque (mosque Oliv) . Now only during hadg to Mecca visit up to two millions person. Therefore practically all life in Mecca is connected with service of Muslim religious pilgrim, visiting this city - modern hotels are constructed, many of which are located in immediate proximity from a mosque to Jaras. However during hadg the majority of pilgrims lives in tents in special camps. The status of sacred city does Mecca closed for unmuslim. According to bases of an islam each devout Moslem should even time in a life visit " mother of cities " as Mecca in the Koran refers to. In opinion of Moslems the special ritual pilgrimage to Mecca - hadg, made in a month of the Storage-Al-Hisgga on a lunar calendar is especially significant .
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