The Kaaba site, a cube-shaped construction located in the large inner courtyard of the Masyid al-Haram Mosque in Mecca, the holy city of Islam, was published by the Danish history magazine Illustreret Videnskab Historie in its classic section Rundt om… (About…). Inside the Kaaba there is a black stone (probably a meteorite), considered a relic. According to the Koran, the Kaaba was built by Abraham and his son Ishmael, father of the Arab people and ancestor of Muhammad and of the Muslim faith.
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