Cuisine of Mecca for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants
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City tours, excursions and tickets in Mecca and surroundings
Unique sights around Mecca
Al-Haram Mosque
From the series “The Most Iconic Temples in the World”
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Distance from Mecca center - 1.2 km.
Recently, the adjacent territory was also reconstructed for carrying out the religious events. Only 2.5 million people can be found within the mosque and the adjacent squares. The huge popularity of the religious monument has brought to the perfection of the surrounding infrastructure, near the mosque is the largest skyscraper complex in the world - located Abraj Al Bait Towers. In some towers are the chic hotels, from whose rooms one can enjoy the panorama of one of the most majestic religious buildings …
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From the series “Top Surviving Artifacts of Muslim Civilization”
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Distance from Mecca center - 1.2 km.
For ordinary believers a huge area was equipped around the temple. On certain days they can come as close as possible to the temple and touch its walls. For adherents of other religious currents, the shrine is inaccessible. The area of free space around the temple today is about 193,000 square meters, at a time up to 400 000 people can accommodate in this area. In the period of the major religious holidays, hundreds of accidents are always registered on the square because of a huge number of parishioners. …
Read further National cuisine of Saudi Arabia
The cuisine of Saudi Arabia was formed under the influence of the nomadic lifestyle of the peoples inhabiting the Arabian Peninsula, the climatic features of the region, and religion. The country's cuisine is subject to religious canons. This means that the food must be Halal. Animals must be killed in a special way. Eating the meat of animals that have died of natural causes is not allowed. It is forbidden to eat pork and meat of predatory animals. The local cuisine is one of the oldest in the world. It has incorporated the culinary traditions of other peoples of the region. In particular, this is due to the long period of stay in the Ottoman Empire. Some dishes can be found in other regional cuisines but with alternative names.
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