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Kaaba

The small and nearly cubical stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca toward which all Mohammedans must pray It contains a sacred black stone believed by Mohammedans to be one of the precious stones of paradise and to have been brought to Abraham when he was contructing the Kaaba by the Angel Gabriel The Kaaba itself predates Mohammed having been a pantheon which contained Arab idols which were destroyed by Mohammed...