It contains a five-star hotel to help accommodate the over two million pilgrims who participate in hajj each year. As a result, the Abraj Al Bait Towers has a large prayer room capable of holding nearly four thousand worshippers. Istemihan Talay, then the Turkish minister of culture, described it as “no different from the pulling down of the Buddha monuments in Afghanistan.”īait in Arabic means house, in reference to Kabaa. Its destruction soured relations between Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The dilapidated fortress was a modest presence that blended in with its natural surroundings. Bulbul, one of the five hills that overlooked the Kaaba. In early 2002 King Fahd demolished an Ottoman fortress, a few hundred feet from the Abdul Aziz gate, that had been built in 1781 on Mt. The site of the structure is across the street from the entrance to the Masjid al Haram, which houses the Kabaa, the holiest site in Islam and the building towards which all Muslims face during prayer. The Abraj Al Bait Towers located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is said to be the biggest (not tallest) building in the world by mass, the tallest building in Saudi Arabia and one of the tallest buildings in the world, surpassing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia which held the title as world's tallest building between 19.Ĭonstructed, at a cost of two billion dollars, by the Binladin Group, the Abraj Al Bait Towers is most notable for its prime location. The Abraj Al-Bait Towers, also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, is a government-owned megatall building complex. He came to teach you your religion.' ' 40 Hadith Nawawi 2 The Hadith of Gabriel / Hadith Jibreel

I waited a while, and then he (the Prophet) said, 'O `Umar, do you know who that questioner was?' I replied, 'Allah and His Messenger know better.' He said, 'That was Jibril. He said, 'Inform me about the Hour.' He (the Prophet) said, 'About that the one questioned knows no more than the questioner.' So he said, 'Well, inform me about its signs.' He said, 'They are that the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress and that you will see the barefooted ones, the naked, the destitute, the herdsmen of the sheep (competing with each other) in raising lofty buildings.' Thereupon the man went off. He sat down close by the Prophet rested his knees against the knees of the Prophet. No traces of journeying were visible on him, and none of us knew him. 'While we were one day sitting with the Messenger of Allah, there appeared before us a man dressed in extremely white clothes and with very black hair.

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