Ajyad
Ajyad is a historic neighborhood of Mecca in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia. Ajya is directly south of Al Haram District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood in Mecca, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Ajyād”, “Ḩayy Ajyād”, and “HayyAjyad”
- Postal code: 24231
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kaaba and Maqam Ibrahim.
Kaaba
Mosque
Photo: Aiman titi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kaaba, also spelled Kaʽba, Kaʽbah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʽba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Maqam Ibrahim
Memorial
The Maqām Ibrāhīm is a small square stone associated with Ibrahim, Ismail and their building of the Kaaba in what is now the Great Mosque of Mecca in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mecca and Haram.
Mecca
Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mecca, officially known as Makkah al-Mukarramah, is a city in Saudi Arabia and the holiest city in Islam. Mecca is the birthplace of Prophet Muhammed, the founder of Islam, and Muslims believe the Qur'an was first revealed to Muhammad here.
Haram
Neighborhood
Haram is one of several similar words originating from the triliteral Semitic root Ḥ-R-M. The word literally means "sanctuary", commonly used by Muslims to refer to Al-Masjid Al-Haram and Prophet Mohammad's Mosque.
Mina
Suburb
Mina, nicknamed the "City of the Tents," is a valley located 8 kilometres southeast of the city of Mecca, in the district of Masha'er, Province of Makkah in the Hejazi region Saudi Arabia. Mina is situated 7 km east of Ajyad.
Ajyad
- Category: locality
- Location: Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
21.41794° or 21° 25′ 5″ northLongitude
39.82917° or 39° 49′ 45″ eastElevation
367 metres (1,204 feet)Open location code
7GHXCR9H+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 6337780361OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Ajyad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أجياد”
- Arabic: “اجياد”
- Arabic: “بأجياد”
- Arabic: “حي أجياد”
- Dutch: “Ajyad”
- Indonesian: “Ajyad, Mekkah”
- Persian: “اجیاد”
- Urdu: “اجیاد”
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Highlights include مركز خدمات المسجد الحرام and Masjid al-Nihari.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ajyad”. Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.