Monday, April 06, 2009

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned'

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned': "Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.

All mosques have a niche showing the direction of the most sacred Islamic site, the Kaaba, an ancient cube-like building in Mecca's Grand Mosque. But people looking down from recently built high-rises in Mecca found the niches in many older mosques were not pointing directly towards the Kaaba.

Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers.

There have been suggestions that laser beams could be used to make an exact measurement."

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This may explain the outcomes of all those wars with Israel.

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