Kaaba

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 and holiest site, the in , Saudi Arabia.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: cubical shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; direction of prayer for Muslims
  • Also known as: “Al Ka‘bah”, “Al Ka`bah”, “al-Ka’bah al-Musharrafah”, “Al-Kaba”, “Caaba”, “Grand Kaaba”, “Ka’aba”, “Ka’ba”, “Ka’bah”, “Kaaba Al-Musharrafah,Al Ka bah,Kaaba,Kaba,Kabah,Kaaba,Kaaba - الكعبة,Kaabah,Kaampa,Kaba,Kaba szentely,Kabe,Ka´ba,Kába,Kába szentély,Kâbe,La Kaaba,Qabeja,kaaba,Κάαμπα,Кааба,Каба,כעבה,الكعبة المشرفة,خانہ کعبہ,کعبه,กะอ, Al Kabah”, “Kaabah”, “Kaba”, “Kabah”, “Kabbah”, “Qibla”, “Sacred House”, “The Cube”, “The Kaaba”, “البنية”, “الدُّوَّار”, “القرية القديمة”, “بكة”, “بنية إبراهيم”, “قادس”, and “نادر”
  • Address: Al Haram, Mecca, 24231

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Black Stone and Maqam Ibrahim.

Stone
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The is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the in , Saudi Arabia. It is revered by most Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve.

Memorial
The Maqām Ibrāhīm is a small square stone associated with Abraham, Ishmael and their building of the Kaaba in what is now the Great Mosque of Mecca in the region of .

Historic site
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is a historic site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mecca and Haram.

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, officially known as Makkah al-Mukarramah, is a major 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
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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 and .

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

Kaaba

Latitude
21.42252° or 21° 25′ 21″ north
Longitude
39.82618° or 39° 49′ 34″ east
Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)
Height
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
7GHXCRFG+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 103914569
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­religious
Geo­Names ID
448646
Wiki­data ID
Q29466
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kaaba” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ka’bah”
  • Adyghe: “Чабэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaaba”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaäba”
  • Albanian: “Qabe”
  • Albanian: “Qabeja”
  • Albanian: “Qabja”
  • Amharic: “ከአባ”
  • Arabic: “البيت العتيق”
  • Arabic: “الكعبة المشرفة”
  • Arabic: “الكعبة المعظمة”
  • Arabic: “الكعبة”
  • Arabic: “الكعبه”
  • Arabic: “كعبة”
  • Armenian: “Քաաբա”
  • Assamese: “কাবা”
  • Asturian: “Kaaba”
  • Avaric: “КагӀба”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beytullah”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kəbə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Kəbə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qiblə”
  • Balinese: “Ka’bah”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡәғбә”
  • Basque: “Kaaba”
  • Belarusian: “Кааба”
  • Bengali: “কাবা”
  • Bengali: “ক্বাবা”
  • Bosnian: “Al-Kaba”
  • Bosnian: “Ćaba”
  • Bosnian: “Ka’aba”
  • Bosnian: “Kaaba”
  • Bosnian: “Kaba”
  • Bosnian: “Kjaba”
  • Bosnian: “Kocka”
  • Bosnian: “Sveta kuća”
  • Bosnian: “Utočište islama”
  • Bosnian: “Velika Kaba”
  • Bosnian: “الكعبة”
  • Breton: “Kaaba”
  • Bulgarian: “Кааба”
  • Bulgarian: “Каабе”
  • Burmese: “ကဗာဟ်”
  • Catalan: “Ka’ba”
  • Catalan: “Kaaba”
  • Catalan: “Kaba”
  • Cebuano: “Käʼbä”
  • Central Bikol: “Kaaba”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەعبە”
  • Chechen: “КаӀбат”
  • Chinese: “Kaʿba”
  • Chinese: “克爾白”
  • Chinese: “卡巴天房”
  • Chinese: “卡巴神廟”
  • Chinese: “卡巴聖堂”
  • Chinese: “天堂禮拜寺”
  • Chinese: “天房”
  • Chinese: “愷阿白”
  • Chuvash: “Кепе (Кааба)”
  • Chuvash: “Кепе”
  • Croatian: “Al-Kaba”
  • Croatian: “Ćaba”
  • Croatian: “Ka’aba”
  • Croatian: “Kaaba”
  • Croatian: “Kaba”
  • Croatian: “Kjaba”
  • Croatian: “Kocka”
  • Croatian: “Sveta kuća”
  • Croatian: “Utočište islama”
  • Croatian: “Velika Ćaba”
  • Croatian: “الكعبة”
  • Czech: “Ka‘ba”
  • Czech: “Ka’ba”
  • Czech: “Ka´ba”
  • Czech: “Kaaba”
  • Czech: “Kaba”
  • Czech: “Kába”
  • Dagbani: “Kaaba”
  • Danish: “Ka’aba”
  • Danish: “Ka‘abaen”
  • Danish: “Ka’abaen”
  • Danish: “Ka’ba”
  • Danish: “Ka’baen”
  • Danish: “Kaaba”
  • Danish: “Kaba”
  • Danish: “Kabba”
  • Dhivehi: “ކަޢުބާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kabe”
  • Dutch: “Baitullah”
  • Dutch: “Ka’aba”
  • Dutch: “Ka‘ba”
  • Dutch: “Ka’ba”
  • Dutch: “Kaaba”
  • Dutch: “Kaäba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الكعبه”
  • Esperanto: “Ka’ba”
  • Esperanto: “Kaaba”
  • Esperanto: “Kaabo”
  • Estonian: “Kaaba kivi”
  • Estonian: “Kaaba”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kaaba”
  • Finnish: “Kaaba”
  • French: “Ka’aba”
  • French: “Ka’ba”
  • French: “Kaaba”
  • French: “Maison Sacrée du Très-Haut”
  • Fulah: “Ka’aba”
  • Ga: “Kaaba”
  • Galician: “Kaaba”
  • Georgian: “ქააბა”
  • German: “Al-Kaʿba”
  • German: “Ka’aba”
  • German: “Ka’ba”
  • German: “Kaaba”
  • German: “Kaʿba”
  • German: “Kaʿbah”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “al-Kaʽba al-Musharrafa”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “De Kaaba”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kaaba”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kaabah”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Qibla”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sacred House”
  • Greek: “Καάμπα”
  • Greek: “Κάαμπα”
  • Gujarati: “કાબા”
  • Hausa: “Kaaba”
  • Hebrew: “אלכעבה”
  • Hebrew: “הכעבה”
  • Hebrew: “הקובייה השחורה במכה”
  • Hebrew: “כעבה”
  • Hindi: “काबा”
  • Hindi: “खाना काबा”
  • Hindi: “बैतुल्लाह”
  • Hungarian: “Kába szentély”
  • Hungarian: “Kába-szentély”
  • Hungarian: “Kába”
  • Icelandic: “Kaaba”
  • Icelandic: “Kaba”
  • Indonesian: “Ka’bah”
  • Indonesian: “Kaabah”
  • Indonesian: “Kabah”
  • Indonesian: “Kakbah”
  • Ingush: “ХьажцӀа”
  • Interlingua: “Kaaba”
  • Irish: “Cába”
  • Italian: “Ca’aba”
  • Italian: “Ca’abah”
  • Italian: “Caab”
  • Italian: “Caaba”
  • Italian: “Caabah”
  • Italian: “Ka’aba”
  • Italian: “Ka’abah”
  • Italian: “Ka‘ba”
  • Italian: “Ka’ba”
  • Italian: “Ka’bah”
  • Italian: “Kaab”
  • Italian: “Kaabah”
  • Italian: “Kabaa”
  • Italian: “Kaʿba”
  • Italian: “Qa’aba”
  • Italian: “Qaaba”
  • Italian: “Qiblah”
  • Japanese: “カーバ”
  • Japanese: “カーバ神殿”
  • Japanese: “カアバ”
  • Japanese: “カアバ神殿”
  • Javanese: “Baitullah”
  • Javanese: “Ka’bah”
  • Kabardian: “Чэбэ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ‌ಅಬಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಅಬಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಬ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಬಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “خانے کعابہٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Қағба”
  • Kirghiz: “Кааба”
  • Komering: “Ka’bah”
  • Korean: “카바”
  • Kurdish: “Berê reş”
  • Kurdish: “Kabe”
  • Latin: “Caba”
  • Latvian: “Kaaba”
  • Latvian: “Kaāba”
  • Latvian: “Kāba”
  • Literary Chinese: “克爾白”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaaba”
  • Lombard: “Ka’ba”
  • Macedonian: “Ќаба”
  • Malagasy: “Kaaba”
  • Malay: “Ka’abah”
  • Malay: “Ka’bah”
  • Malay: “Kaabah”
  • Malayalam: “Kaaba”
  • Malayalam: “ക‌അബ”
  • Malayalam: “കഅബ”
  • Malayalam: “കഅ്ബ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯕ (ꯏꯁꯂꯥꯝ)”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯕ”
  • Marathi: “काबा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kaʿba”
  • Minangkabau: “Ka’bah”
  • Mingrelian: “ქააბა”
  • N'Ko: “الكعبة”
  • N'Ko: “ߊ߬ߟߌ߬ߞߊ߯ߓߊ”
  • N'Ko: “ߊ߬ߟߌ߬ߞߊ߰ߓߊ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߏ߲߫ ߠߊߕߏߣߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߎ߲ߞߎ߲ߡߊ”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߐ߬ߕߐ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Kaba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaaba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Kaaba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Kaba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Kaaba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Kaba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaaba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaba”
  • Norwegian: “Kaba”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kaaba”
  • Ossetian: “Чабæ”
  • Pampanga: “Kába”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਅਬਾ”
  • Persian: “خانه کعبه”
  • Persian: “خانهٔ کعبه”
  • Persian: “کعبه”
  • Picard: “Kaaba”
  • Polish: “Al-Kaba”
  • Polish: “Kaaba”
  • Portuguese: “Caaba”
  • Portuguese: “Câba”
  • Portuguese: “Kaaba”
  • Pushto: “کعبه”
  • Romanian: “Kaaba”
  • Russian: “Ал-Кааба”
  • Russian: “Аль-Ка‘ба”
  • Russian: “Кааба”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱵᱟ”
  • Scots: “Kaaba”
  • Serbian: “Kaba”
  • Serbian: “Велика Каба”
  • Serbian: “Ел Каба”
  • Serbian: “Кааба”
  • Serbian: “Каба”
  • Serbian: “Кјаба”
  • Serbian: “Коцка”
  • Serbian: “Света кућа”
  • Serbian: “Ћаба”
  • Serbian: “Уточиште ислама”
  • Serbian: “ٱلْكَعْبَة”
  • Serbian: “الكعبة”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ćaba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaaba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaba”
  • Sicilian: “Ka‘ba”
  • Sindhi: “ڪعبه شريف”
  • Slovak: “Kaaba”
  • Slovak: “Kába”
  • Slovenian: “Kaaba”
  • Slovenian: “Kaba”
  • Somali: “Kacbada”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کعبه”
  • Spanish: “Caaba”
  • Spanish: “Kaaba”
  • Spanish: “La Kaaba”
  • Sundanese: “Ka’bah”
  • Swahili: “Kaaba”
  • Swedish: “Al-Kaaba”
  • Swedish: “Al-Kaba”
  • Swedish: “Al-Kabah”
  • Swedish: “Kaaba”
  • Swedish: “Kaba”
  • Swedish: “Kabaa”
  • Swedish: “Kaban”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠛꠣ ꠡꠞꠤꠚ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠛꠣ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠛꠣꠊꠞ”
  • Tagalog: “Kaaba”
  • Tagalog: “Kë-bë”
  • Tagalog: “Kë·bë”
  • Tajik: “Байтулаллоҳ (хонаи Аллоҳ)”
  • Tajik: “Байтулҳарам (хонаи муқаддас)”
  • Tajik: “Каъба”
  • Tajik: “Масҷидулҳарам (масҷиди муқаддас)”
  • Tamil: “கஃபா”
  • Tamil: “காபா”
  • Tatar: “Кагъбә”
  • Tatar: “Кәгъбә”
  • Telugu: “కాబా”
  • Telugu: “బైతుల్ అతీఖ్”
  • Telugu: “బైతుల్ హరామ్”
  • Telugu: “హతీం”
  • Thai: “กะบะฮ์”
  • Thai: “กะอ์บะห์”
  • Thai: “กะอ์บะฮ์”
  • Thai: “กะอฺบะหฺ”
  • Thai: “กะอฺบะฮฺ”
  • Turkish: “Allah’ın Evi”
  • Turkish: “Beytullah”
  • Turkish: “Kabe-i Şerif”
  • Turkish: “Kabe”
  • Turkish: “Kâbe”
  • Twi: “Kaaba”
  • Uighur: “كەئبە”
  • Ukrainian: “Кааба”
  • Urdu: “بیت ﷲ”
  • Urdu: “بیت اللہ”
  • Urdu: “خانہ کعبہ”
  • Urdu: “خانۂ کعبہ”
  • Urdu: “کعبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ka’ba”
  • Uzbek: “Ka`ba”
  • Uzbek: “Kaaba”
  • Uzbek: “Kaʼba”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaaba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kaaba”
  • Welsh: “Caaba”
  • Western Armenian: “Քաապա”
  • Western Panjabi: “کعبہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “克尔白”
  • Yakut: “Кааба”
  • Yoruba: “Kaaba”
  • Yoruba: “Káábà”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡巴天房”

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