Black Stone

The Black Stone is a rock set into the eastern corner of the , 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.
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Photo: Amerrycan Muslim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Stone
  • Description: rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, revered by Muslims
  • Also known as: “Kaaba stone”

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 in , Saudi Arabia.

Memorial
The Maqām Ibrāhīm is a small square stone associated with Abraham, Ishmael and their building of the 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.

Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, 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.

Black Stone

Latitude
21.4225° or 21° 25′ 21″ north
Longitude
39.82626° or 39° 49′ 35″ east
Open location code
7GHXCRCG+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1199442721
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­stone
Wiki­data ID
Q715286
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Black Stone” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Swart Steen”
  • Albanian: “Guri i Zi (Meka)”
  • Albanian: “Guri i Zi”
  • Arabic: “الحجر الأسود”
  • Arabic: “الحجر الاسود”
  • Arabic: “حجر اسود”
  • Armenian: “Սև քար”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həcərul-əsvəd”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həcərül-əsvəd”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qara daş”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡара таш”
  • Basque: “Harri Beltza”
  • Belarusian: “Чорны камень”
  • Bengali: “হাজরে আসওয়াদ”
  • Burmese: “ကျောက်နက်တော်”
  • Catalan: “Pedra Negra”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەردە ڕەشەکە”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەردە ڕەشەکەی کەعبە”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەردەکەی کەعبە”
  • Chechen: “Ӏаьржа тӀулг”
  • Chinese: “玄石”
  • Chinese: “黑石”
  • Czech: “Černý kámen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Siya siyaye”
  • Dutch: “Zwarte Steen (Mekka)”
  • Dutch: “Zwarte Steen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الحجر الاسود”
  • Esperanto: “Haĝar al-Asŭad”
  • Esperanto: “Haĝar Al-Asŭad”
  • Esperanto: “Haĝar Al-Aswad”
  • Esperanto: “Hajar Al-Aswad”
  • Esperanto: “Kaaba Ŝtono”
  • Esperanto: “Nigra ŝtono”
  • Esperanto: “Nigra Ŝtono”
  • Finnish: “Kaaban musta kivi”
  • French: “Pierre noire”
  • Galician: “Pedra Negra”
  • German: “Schwarzer Stein”
  • Greek: “Μαύρος λίθος”
  • Greek: “Μαύρος Λίθος”
  • Hausa: “Baƙin Dutse”
  • Hebrew: “האבן השחורה”
  • Hindi: “हजर ए अस्वद”
  • Hindi: “हजर-ए-असवद”
  • Hindi: “हज्रे अस्वद”
  • Hungarian: “fekete kő”
  • Hungarian: “Fekete kő”
  • Hungarian: “Fekete Kő”
  • Icelandic: “Hadsjar”
  • Indonesian: “Hajar ‘Aswad”
  • Indonesian: “Hajar al Aswad”
  • Indonesian: “Hajar Aswad”
  • Interlingua: “Hajar Al-Aswad”
  • Irish: “Cloch na bhFlaitheas”
  • Italian: “Pietra Nera”
  • Japanese: “カアバの黒石”
  • Japanese: “黒い石”
  • Japanese: “黒石”
  • Javanese: “Hajar Aswad”
  • Kashmiri: “حجرے اَسوَد”
  • Kazakh: “Қағбаның қара тасы”
  • Kazakh: “Қара тас”
  • Kazakh: “Хажар асуад”
  • Korean: “검은 돌”
  • Kurdish: “Kevirê reş”
  • Lithuanian: “Juodasis akmuo (islamas)”
  • Lithuanian: “Juodasis akmuo”
  • Lombard: “Preja Negra”
  • Malay: “Hajar aswad”
  • Malay: “Hajarulaswad”
  • Malayalam: “Black Stone”
  • Malayalam: “ഹജറുൽ അസ് വദ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഹജറുൽ അസ്‌വദ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den svarte stein”
  • Ossetian: “Сау дур”
  • Persian: “حجر الأسود”
  • Persian: “حجر الاسود”
  • Persian: “حجرالاسود”
  • Persian: “حجرالسود”
  • Polish: “Hadżar”
  • Portuguese: “Hajar el Aswad”
  • Portuguese: “Pedra Negra”
  • Romanian: “Piatra Neagră”
  • Russian: “Аль-хаджар аль-асвад”
  • Russian: “Хаджар аль-Асвад”
  • Russian: “Хаджар асвад”
  • Russian: “Черный камень Каабы”
  • Russian: “Черный камень”
  • Russian: “Чёрный камень”
  • Saraiki: “حجر اسود”
  • Sindhi: “حجر اسود”
  • Slovenian: “Črni kamen”
  • Somali: “Xajar aswad”
  • Spanish: “al-Hayar-ul-Aswad”
  • Spanish: “Piedra Negra”
  • Sundanese: “Batu hideung”
  • Sundanese: “Hajar Aswad”
  • Swedish: “Al-Hajar Al-Aswad”
  • Swedish: “Den svarta stenen”
  • Swedish: “Svarta stenen”
  • Tajik: “Ҳаҷаруласвад”
  • Tamil: “கறுப்புக் கல்”
  • Tatar: “Кара таш”
  • Tatar: “Хәҗәре әсвәд”
  • Tatar: “Хәҗәрел-әсвәд”
  • Thai: “หินดำ”
  • Turkish: “Hacer-i Esved”
  • Turkish: “Hacer-ül Esved”
  • Turkish: “Haceri Esved”
  • Turkish: “Hacerül esved”
  • Turkish: “Hacerülesved”
  • Ukrainian: “Чорний камінь”
  • Urdu: “Hajre aswad”
  • Urdu: “حجر اسود”
  • Uzbek: “Hajar al-asvad”
  • Uzbek: “Qora tosh”
  • Western Panjabi: “حجر اسود”
  • Western Panjabi: “حجرہ اسود”
  • Yue Chinese: “黑石 (伊斯蘭教)”
  • “al-Hajar al-Aswad”
  • “al‐Ḥajar al‐Aswad”
  • “Hajar Aswad”
  • “Hajar e aswad”
  • “Hijri Aswad”

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