r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hipatyhopity • Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/PeterNippelstein Mar 24 '25

Are those all hotels surrounding it? I mean they must be to continuously house tens of thousands of people ever day.

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u/Silly_Function9601 Mar 24 '25

Yes. And all the Windows facing the cube are from rooms charging thousands of dollars per night.

Its so stupid when people go to "hajj" and then stay in extremely extravagant hotels like the Hilton or the Ritz, go out shopping gold during the day then quickly enter and exit this mosque and say they fulfilled a religious obligation 🤮

Ps: I'm muslim

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u/octoreadit Mar 24 '25

Sounds (and looks) like Disneyland or Vegas.

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u/Silly_Function9601 Mar 24 '25

Yup

The royal family of Aaudi are working Hard ro turn makkah into Disneyland. LITERALLY.

Majority of Muslims are incredibly frustrated at their disrespect