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State |
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City
Town |
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Year
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| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
Jebel al Noor |
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Narrow valley. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
Jebel al Noor |
|
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Crowded city. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
Jebel al Noor |
|
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The entrance to the mountain. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
Jebel al Noor |
|
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The city. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
Jebel al Noor |
|
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The steps. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The Exhibition of the Two Holy Mosques. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The museum is about the two mosques in Medina and Mecca. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Model of the Great Mosque at Mecca. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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A teak staircase (1824). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The teak staircase was for access to the Kaaba in the Great Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass inscriptions. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Detail from the teak staircase decoration. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The Station of Ibrahim (Abraham) replaced from the Great Mosque during the Saudi period. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Top to a mosque dome. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Marble arch to a door in the Great Mosque, 1576. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Verse from the Quran. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Stone columns with inscriptions describing work done to the Great Mosque in 1454. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Detail of 1454 inscription. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Top to a mosque dome. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Copper door removed from the Great Mosque in the Saudi era. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Marble stone pillar commemorating the building of a minaret at the Great Mosque in 1379 (Mamluk era). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Mosque fittings dating from 1842 and 1407. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Marble slab engraved with a palm tree (1786). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Marble slab engraved with a cypress tree (1786). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscription from 1881 on marble and painted green (Allah, the Islamic deity). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscription, 1881 (Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscription (Abu Bakr, the successor to Muhammad). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscription (Umar, the second successor or Caliph). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscription (Ali, the son in law of the Prophet). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Silver door to the Kaaba made in 1944. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Detail of the silver Kaaba door. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The frame of the black stone in the Kaaba dating from the Saudi era. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The curtain of the door to the Kaaba. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscription from 1707 for the Kaaba walls. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Weight for holding down Kaaba curtain. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Photo of the Kaaba entrance in 2022. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Machine used for weaving. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Wooden pillar from the Kaaba dating from 685. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Piece of a wooden pillar from 685. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Key from the Kaaba. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Lock from the Kaaba. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscriptions from the Kaaba lock. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Photo of the Kaaba before modernisation of the area (Sadiq Biq, 1880). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Photo of the Great Mosque with the Kaaba (Sadiq Biq, 1880). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Photo of Mecca dignitaries (Sadiq Biq, 1880). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Prayer carpets. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Circular disk with prayer, 1662. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Marble inscription from the Abbasid era (1234). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Mamluk inscription from 1448. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Disk from 1401. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Example of Quranic caligraphy. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Illuminated Quran. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Detail of Quranic calography. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Prayer from 1866. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Saudi lantern once attached to a door of the Great Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Copper screen from the 17th century. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Top of a silver lantern. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The Zamzam Well removed from the Great Mosque in 1881. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass bowels for drinking from the Zamzam Well. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Ceramics for storing Zamzam water. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass bucket used in the Zamzam Well up to 1881. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass urn from 1894. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Animal skin for carrying water. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass urn used at the Zamzam Well until 1900. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass bucket used in the Zamzam Well up to 1884. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Coins found in the Zamzam Well during cleaning. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The Great Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Photo of the Zamzam Well building. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Model of the Prophet's Mosque at Medina. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Fixture from the Prophet's Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Inscription (Allah and the declaration of faith, the Shahada). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass crescent, 1881. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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19th century top of the main minaret of the Prophet's Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Decorated door. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Detail of a decorated door on the Prophet's Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Brass door hinge. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Photo of the Prophet's Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Photo of the Prophet's Tomb from the courtyard of the Prophet's Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Marble flower. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Pulpit door. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Solver lock of the pulpit door. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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A marble midday timer for determining prayer time (1614). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Detail of the midday timer. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Gypsum window from the Prophet's Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Stone slab from the Mamluk era (1496). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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The Prophet's Mosque. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Quran from the Ottoman era. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Transport for elderly pilgrims. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Gifts for the museum. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
Two Mosques Exhibition |
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Pilgrims from Kyrgyzstan. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Mecca |
|
|
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The holy city of Mecca (al Makkah). |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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|
Mecca |
|
|
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The city of Mecca. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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|
Mecca |
|
|
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Hazy view of the city. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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|
Mecca |
|
|
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View of the old city from the modern centre. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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|
Mecca |
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Minarets of the Great Mosque at night. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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|
Mecca |
|
|
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The clocktower at night. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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|
Jeddah |
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|
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Modern buildings in Jeddah. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Jeddah |
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|
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Jeddah is a modern city by the coast. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Jeddah |
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The city has modern buildings and modern highways. |
2022 |
| Saudi Arabia |
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Jeddah |
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Banks in the commercial centre. |
2022 |
were added from 1 January 2023.