Maqam Ibrahim
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Memorial
- Description: stone associated with Ibrahim, in what is now the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia
- Also known as: “Station of Abraham”
- Roof shape: dome
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kaaba and Corner of Yemen.
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.
Al-Hijr (Hateem)
Building
Photo: Al Jazeera English, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hijr Ismail also known as Hateem, is a low wall originally part of the Kaaba. It is a semi-circular wall opposite, but not connected to, the north-west wall of the Kaaba known as the hatīm.
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.
Ajyad
Neighborhood
Ajyad is a historic neighborhood of Mecca in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia. Ajya is directly south of Al Haram District.
Maqam Ibrahim
- Categories: sacred place, building, and historic site
- Location: Mecca Region, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.42258° or 21° 25′ 21″ northLongitude
39.82631° or 39° 49′ 35″ eastHeight
2.5 metres (8.2 feet)Open location code
7GHXCRFG+2GOpenStreetMap ID
way 473301379OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=domeWikidata ID
Q3696312
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Maqam Ibrahim” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقام أبراهيم”
- Arabic: “مقام إبراهيم عليه السلام”
- Arabic: “مقام إبراهيم عليه الصلاة والسلام”
- Arabic: “مقام إبراهيم”
- Arabic: “مقام النبي إبراهيم”
- Arabic: “مقام سيدنا إبراهيم”
- Bashkir: “Ибраһим маҡамы”
- Bengali: “মাকামে ইব্রাহিম”
- Central Kurdish: “مەقامی ئیبراھیم”
- Chechen: “ИбраьхӀиман макъам”
- Dutch: “Maqām Ibrāhīm”
- Dutch: “Standplaats van Ibrahim”
- French: “Station d’Abraham”
- Fulah: “Maqam Ibrahim”
- Galician: “Maqam Ibrahim”
- German: “Maqām Ibrāhīm”
- Hindi: “मकाम-ए इब्राहिम”
- Hindi: “मक़ामे इबराहीम”
- Hindi: “मक़ामे इब्राहिम”
- Hindi: “मक़ामे इब्राहीम”
- Hindi: “मुक़ामे इब्राहिम”
- Indonesian: “Maqam Ibrahim”
- Italian: “Maqam Ibrahim”
- Javanese: “Maqam Ibrahim”
- Kashmiri: “مَقامِ اِبراہیٖم”
- Malay: “Makam Ibrahim”
- Malay: “Maqam Ibrahim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abrahams standplass”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abrahams ståsted”
- Norwegian: “Abrahams standplass”
- Persian: “مقام ابراهیم”
- Russian: “Макам Ибрахима”
- Russian: “Макам пророка Ибрахима”
- Slovenian: “Abrahamova postaja”
- Slovenian: “makam Ibrahim”
- Spanish: “Maqam Ibrahim”
- Tajik: “Мақоми Иброҳим”
- Thai: “มะกอมอิบรอฮีม”
- Turkish: “Makam-ı İbrahim”
- Urdu: “مقام ابراہیم”
- Uzbek: “Maqom Ibrohim”
- Western Panjabi: “مقام ابراہیم”
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