Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Mecca Region

Masjid al-Haram

Masjid al-Haram, also known as the Sacred Mosque or the Great Mosque of Mecca, is considered to be the most significant in Islam. It encloses the vicinity of the in , in the of .
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: Islam’s holiest mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Al Masjid al Ḩarām”, “al-Haram Mosque”, “Al-Masjid Al-Haram”, “Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām”, “El Masğid el Ḥarām”, “Great Mosque of Mecca”, and “Sacred Mosque”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kaaba and Maqam Ibrahim.

Mosque
Photo: Aiman titi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , 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 and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in , Saudi Arabia. is situated 160 metres southwest of Masjid al-Haram.

Memorial
The Maqām Ibrāhīm is a small square stone associated with Ibrahim, Ismail and their building of the in what is now the Great Mosque of Mecca in the region of . is situated 150 metres southwest of Masjid al-Haram.

Historic site
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is a historic site, which is situated 170 metres southwest of Masjid al-Haram.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haram and Mecca.

Neighborhood
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 .

Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, officially known as Makkah al-Mukarramah, is a city in and the holiest city in Islam. is the birthplace of Prophet Muhammed, the founder of Islam, and Muslims believe the Qur'an was first revealed to Muhammad here.

Neighborhood
is a historic neighborhood of in Makkah Province, in western . Ajya is directly south of Al Haram District.

Masjid al-Haram

Latitude
21.42361° or 21° 25′ 25″ north
Longitude
39.82722° or 39° 49′ 38″ east
Elevation
307 metres (1,007 feet)
Open location code
7GHXCRFG+CV
Geo­Names ID
448645
Wiki­data ID
Q428858
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Masjid al-Haram” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Meuseujid al-Haram”
  • Afrikaans: “Al-Masdjid al-Haram”
  • Albanian: “Xhamia e Shenjtë”
  • Albanian: “Xhamia el-Haram”
  • Arabic: “الحرم المكي الشريف”
  • Arabic: “الحرم المكي”
  • Arabic: “المسجد الحرام”
  • Arabic: “المسجد المكي”
  • Arabic: “بيت الله الحرام”
  • Arabic: “حرم مكي”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Հարամ մզկիթ”
  • Armenian: “Մասջիդ Ալ-Հարամ մզկիթ”
  • Assamese: “মক্কাৰ মছজিদ”
  • Asturian: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Məscid əl-Haram”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məscidi-Həram”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məscidül-həram”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məscidül-Həram”
  • Balinese: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Bashkir: “Әл-Харам мәсете”
  • Bashkir: “Мәсджид әл-Харам мәсете”
  • Basque: “Masjid al-Haram Meskita”
  • Basque: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Belarusian: “Аль-Харам”
  • Belarusian: “Масджыд аль-Харам”
  • Belarusian: “Мячэць Аль-Харам”
  • Bengali: “মসজিদ আল-হারাম”
  • Bengali: “মসজিদে হারাম”
  • Bosnian: “Mesdžidul-haram”
  • Bulgarian: “Масджид ал-Харам”
  • Bulgarian: “Месджид ал-Харам”
  • Catalan: “Al-masjid al-haram”
  • Catalan: “Al-Màsjid al-Haram”
  • Catalan: “Gran mesquita de la Meca”
  • Catalan: “Gran mesquita”
  • Catalan: “Gran Mesquita”
  • Catalan: “La Gran Mesquita”
  • Catalan: “Masjid al haram”
  • Catalan: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Catalan: “Mesquita d’al-Haram”
  • Catalan: “Mesquita Sagrada”
  • Central Kurdish: “مزگەوتی حەرام”
  • Chechen: “Аль-Хьарам маьждиг”
  • Chechen: “Масджидуль-Хьарам”
  • Chinese: “Sîn-sèng Chheng-chin-sī”
  • Chinese: “大清真寺”
  • Chinese: “禁寺”
  • Chinese: “麥加大清真寺”
  • Chinese: “麥加禁寺”
  • Croatian: “Masdžid al-Haram”
  • Croatian: “Mesdžidul-Haram”
  • Czech: “Al-Masdžid al-Haram”
  • Czech: “Al-Masdžid al-Harám”
  • Czech: “Masdžid al-Haram”
  • Czech: “Velká mešita”
  • Danish: “Al-Haram-moskeen”
  • Danish: “Al-Haram-moskéen”
  • Danish: “Al-Haram”
  • Danish: “El-Haram”
  • Danish: “Masjid al-Harâm”
  • Dhivehi: “މަސްޖިދުލްޙަރާމް”
  • Dutch: “Al-Masjid al-Haram”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المسجد الحرام”
  • Esperanto: “Masĝid al-Haram”
  • Esperanto: “Moskeo de Mekko”
  • Finnish: “Al-Masjid al-Haram”
  • Finnish: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Finnish: “Masjid Al-Haram”
  • French: “Al Masjid al-Haram”
  • French: “Grande Mosquée”
  • French: “Masjid al-haram”
  • French: “Masjid Al-Haram”
  • French: “Mosquée Al Haram”
  • French: “Mosquée al-Haram”
  • French: “mosquée al-Harâm”
  • French: “Mosquée sacrée”
  • Galician: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Galician: “Mesquita Sagrada”
  • Georgian: “მასჯიდ ალ-ჰარამი”
  • German: “al-Haram-Moschee”
  • German: “Al-Harām-Moschee”
  • German: “al-Masdschid al-Harām”
  • German: “Heilige Moschee”
  • German: “Verbotene Moschee”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “al-Haram Mosque”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Al-Masjid Al-Haram”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Great Mosque of Mecca”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sacred Mosque”
  • Greek: “Μασγίντ αλ-Χαράμ”
  • Greek: “Μέγα Τζαμί της Μέκκας”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλο Τζαμί της Μέκκας”
  • Hausa: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Hebrew: “אל־מסג’ד אל־חראם”
  • Hebrew: “המסגד הקדוש”
  • Hebrew: “מסג’ד אל־חראם”
  • Hebrew: “מסג’ד אלחראם”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד אל-חראם”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד אל־חראם”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד אלחראם”
  • Hindi: “मस्जिद अल-हरम”
  • Hindi: “मस्जिद-अल-हरम”
  • Hindi: “हरम मस्जिद”
  • Hungarian: “al-Harám mecset”
  • Hungarian: “al-Maszdzsid al-Harám”
  • Hungarian: “mekkai nagymecset”
  • Hungarian: “Mekkai nagymecset”
  • Icelandic: “Stóra moskan (Mekka)”
  • Icelandic: “Stóra moskan”
  • Indonesian: “Masjidil Haram”
  • Ingush: “Масджидуль-Хьарам”
  • Ingush: “Масжид аль-Хьарам”
  • Interlingua: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Italian: “Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām”
  • Italian: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Japanese: “マスジド・ハラーム”
  • Japanese: “大モスク”
  • Javanese: “Masjid Al Haram”
  • Javanese: “Masjidil Haram”
  • Javanese: “Masjidil Karam”
  • Kashmiri: “مَسجِدُ الحرام”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Харам мешіті”
  • Kazakh: “Мәсжид әл-Харам”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Masjid al-Haram”
  • Kirghiz: “Ал-Харам мечити”
  • Komering: “Masjidil Haram”
  • Korean: “마스지드 알하람”
  • Latin: “Meschita al-Haram”
  • Latvian: “Harāma mošeja”
  • Lithuanian: “Mekos didžioji mečetė”
  • Macedonian: “Месџид ел-Харам”
  • Macedonian: “Џамија Масџид ал-Харам”
  • Malay: “Al Masjid Al Haram”
  • Malay: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Malay: “Masjid Al-Haram”
  • Malay: “Masjidil Haram”
  • Malayalam: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Malayalam: “മസ്ജിദുൽ ഹറം”
  • Malayalam: “മസ്ജിദുൽ ഹറാം”
  • Maltese: “al-Masjid al-Ḥarām”
  • Maltese: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Maltese: “Misġed il-Ħram”
  • Maltese: “Moskea Kbira ta‘ Mekka”
  • Maltese: “Moskea Sagra”
  • Mazanderani: “مسجدالحرام”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sîn-sèng Chheng-chin-sī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sîn-sìng Tshing-tsin-sī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “神聖清真寺”
  • Minangkabau: “Masjidil Haram”
  • Minangkabau: “Musajik Al-Haram”
  • Mongolian: “Аль-Харам сүм”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߌ߲ߓߌߘߌ߲ߘߊ ߟߊߕߏߣߍ߲”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “al-Haram”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masjid al Haram”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masjid Al Haram”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-haram”
  • Norwegian: “Al-Haram”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Ossetian: “Мæзджыт аль-Хæрам”
  • Ossetian: “Мæзджыт аль-Харам”
  • Ossetian: “Мæзджыт Аль-Харам”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸਜਿਦ ਅਲ-ਹਰਮ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸਜਿਦ ਅਲ-ਹਰਾਮ”
  • Persian: “مسجد الحرام”
  • Persian: “مسجدالحرام”
  • Polish: “Al-Haram”
  • Polish: “Al-Masdżid al-Haram”
  • Polish: “Święty Meczet”
  • Portuguese: “Al masjid al-haram”
  • Portuguese: “Al Masjid al-Haram”
  • Portuguese: “Al Masjid Al-Haram”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Masjid al-Haram”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Masjid Al-Haram”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Mesquita de Meca”
  • Portuguese: “Masjid al Haram”
  • Portuguese: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Portuguese: “Masjid Al-Haram”
  • Pushto: “مسجد الحرام”
  • Romanian: “Marea Moschee din Mecca”
  • Romanian: “Moscheea Sfântă din Mecca”
  • Russian: “Аль-Масджид аль-Харам”
  • Russian: “Аль-Харам”
  • Russian: “Заповедная мечеть”
  • Russian: “Запретная мечеть”
  • Russian: “Масджид ал-Харам”
  • Russian: “Масджид аль-Харам”
  • Russian: “Масджид Аль-Харам”
  • Russian: “Мечеть аль-Харам”
  • Russian: “Мечеть Аль-Харам”
  • Scots: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Serbian: “El Masğid el Ḥarām”
  • Serbian: “Велика џамија”
  • Serbian: “Меканска џамија”
  • Serbian: “Света џамија”
  • Serbian: “المسجد الحرام”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta džamija”
  • Sindhi: “مسجد الحرام”
  • Slovenian: “Masdžid al-Haram”
  • Slovenian: “Sveta mošeja”
  • Somali: “Masjid al-Xaram”
  • Somali: “Masjidul-xaraam”
  • Spanish: “Al Masjid al Haram”
  • Spanish: “Al Masjid al-Haram”
  • Spanish: “al-Másyid al-Haram”
  • Spanish: “Gran Mezquita de La Meca”
  • Spanish: “Masjid al Haram”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita de la Meca”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita de La Meca”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita sagrada”
  • Sundanese: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Swedish: “Al Masjid Al-Haram”
  • Swedish: “Masjid al Haram”
  • Swedish: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Swedish: “Masjid ul Haram”
  • Swedish: “Masjid-ul-Haram”
  • Tajik: “Mascid-al-Harom”
  • Tajik: “Mascidul Haram”
  • Tajik: “Mascidul Harom”
  • Tajik: “Масҷид ал-Ҳаром”
  • Tajik: “Масҷид-ул-Ҳаром”
  • Tajik: “Масҷиди Макка”
  • Tajik: “Масҷидулҳаром”
  • Tamil: “அல்-மசிச்சிது அல்-ஃஅராம்”
  • Tamil: “அல்-மசிச்சிதுல் அல்-ஃஅராம்”
  • Tamil: “காபா”
  • Tamil: “புனித காபா”
  • Tamil: “மஸ்ஜிதுல் ஹராம்”
  • Tamil: “மஸ்ஜித் அல்-ஹராம்”
  • Tatar: “Әл-Харам мәчете”
  • Telugu: “మస్జిదుల్ హరామ్”
  • Telugu: “మస్జిద్ అల్ హరామ్”
  • Telugu: “మస్జిద్-అల్-హరామ్”
  • Thai: “มัสยิดใหญ่แห่งมักกะฮ์”
  • Thai: “มัสยิดอัลฮะรอม”
  • Turkish: “Mescid-i haram”
  • Turkish: “Mescid-i Haram”
  • Turkish: “Mescid-i Harâm”
  • Uighur: “مەسجىدى ھەرەم”
  • Ukrainian: “Аль-Масжид Аль-Харам”
  • Ukrainian: “Заповідна Мечеть”
  • Ukrainian: “Масжид Аль-Харам”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть аль-Харам”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть Аль-Харам”
  • Urdu: “مسجد الحرام”
  • Urdu: “مسجد حرام”
  • Uzbek: “al-Masjid al-Harom”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Masjid al-Harom”
  • Vietnamese: “Al-Masjid al-Haram”
  • Vietnamese: “Al-Masjid Al-Haram”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Welsh: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Welsh: “Mosg al-Haram”
  • Welsh: “Mosg Al-Haram”
  • West Coast Bajau: “Masjid al-Haram”
  • Western Mari: “Масджид аль-Харам мечеть”
  • Western Panjabi: “مسجد الحرام”
  • Wu Chinese: “禁寺”
  • Yue Chinese: “大清真寺”

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Masjid al-Haram”. Photo: Muhammad Sadiq (photographer), Public domain.