Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

The Kaaba (Arabic: الكعبة‎  Al-Ka'Bah, English: The Cube) is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the as a rule sacred spot in Islam. The Qur'an states so as to the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham and his son Ishmael, gone Ishmael had established in Arabia. The building has a mosque built around it, the Masjid al-Haram. All Muslims around the humanity be realistic the Kaaba in prayers, nix substance anywhere they are.

One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires each Muslim to act the Hajj pilgrimage by smallest amount in the past in his or her period if they are able to achieve so. Multiple parts of the Hajj require pilgrims to amble seven era around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction (as viewed from above). This circumambulation, the Tawaf, is too performed by pilgrims in the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage). However, the as a rule dramatic era are in the Hajj, as, officially, on the subject of 6 million pilgrims all together meet to circumnavigate the building on the same daytime