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The Black Stone was held in reverence well before Islam. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods.
4 maj 2021 · High resolution photos have been revealed for the first time of an ancient religious stone in Mecca, Islam’s holy city, a Saudi government agency has announced.
19 maj 2021 · Situated in the eastern corner of the house of God, Kaaba – the Black Stone is known as Hajar al-Awad in Arabic. It is the sacred stone where Tawaf—the obligatory rite of Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage—starts and ends.
2 maj 2024 · The Black Stone also known as Hajr-e-Aswad is a stone bestowed down from the heaven. It is not an ordinary stone; Muslims have affiliations with it. The stone is located at the eastern cornerstone of the Holy Ka’bah. Muslims around the world try to kiss it and see it whenever they visit Makkah for Hajj or Umrah.
28 wrz 2024 · Black Stone of Mecca, Muslim object of veneration, built into the eastern wall of the Kaʿbah (small shrine within the Great Mosque of Mecca) and probably dating from the pre-Islamic religion of the Arabs. It now consists of three large pieces and some fragments, surrounded by a stone ring and held.
3 kwi 2020 · The Kaaba is a cubic-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most sacred mosque. One of it’s corners has a mysterious black stone said to have supernatural Every day, five times a day, Muslims across the world face the holy site of Mecca and pray.
7 mar 2019 · The Kaaba, which is covered with a black drape, displays the black stone about five feet off the ground, and worshipers walk around it during their pilgrimages. Muslim pilgrims revere the stone as a powerful symbol of faith.
