Imagineering Mecca

The city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia is the major pilgrimage town for Muslims, doing the annual Hajj. The continues and growing pilgrimage has a great impact on the city and changes it sights and skyline.

The Guardian published an article on plans for building the largest hotel in the world, 10.000 rooms.

(Screen webpage The Guardian, taken May 27, 2015)

Next to the Grand Mosque the Abraj al-Bait clocktower was built, one of the largest buildings in the world and featuring the largest clock.

(Photo: Wikimedia commons, Fadi El Benni)

The western part of the city features the Jabal Omar project, a complex that should accomodate 100.000 people.
A new city arises, the old one gone.


See the article in The Guardian, May 22, 2015 here.
Another article on the mega architecture in The Guardian of Oct 23, 2012 here.
See additional report on birthplace of the Prophet (pbuh) here.