mecca

Its name means to set out for a place, and for Muslims around the world, that place is the holy city of Mecca.

Also a Mecca for Southern State teenagers who upon finishing school, head north for a week of booze and debauchery.

Mocha was also the main port for the one sea route to Mecca, and was the busiest place in the world at the time.

Employment is up, and the cost of living is down in North Carolina's capital, a mecca for stable high-tech jobs.

They set aside other activities, face in the direction of the Muslim holy city of Mecca, and kneel down in worship.

He was born in Mecca, the holiest of Muslim places and was the only person to be born within the Kaaba sanctuary inside the city.

On the first two conditions, to judge by the details published so far, Hamas seems to have given little new ground in Mecca.

Another showed the sun setting on Mecca, with its Kaaba (the big black box focus of pilgrim worship), in real time.

You see, the king of Saudi Arabia, also known as the Keeper of the Two Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina, can visit the pope in the Vatican.

Singapore seems to have gone from strait-laced container port to gambling mecca in one bound.

There are several good schools in this place and thus making it a Mecca for Korean-Americans.

Wang and I were among the last to arrive at the supermarket. Our group had stayed at the Chinese Mecca for eleven minutes.

Mecca pilgrimage three ping temple, with its unique aura well-known at home and abroad, aged continuous incense, visitors the cloud.

The store will be a pink mecca for all things Barbie and will attempt to broaden the doll's appeal to older girls and their mothers.

Wudan mountain became the mecca of martial artists seeking cultivation of mind and body, as well as a training ground for fighting skills.

The idea of a Chinese automobile company supplying green technology to the mecca for all things pure and clean seems counter intuitive.

The outskirts of Kogane- cho in Yokohama were called the red line, and were a medicine and a mecca of prostitution after the war.

a pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in his lifetime.

a pilgrimage to Mecca; every Muslim must make this journey at least once.

Nearly three million Muslim pilgrims have been performing a ritual of forgiveness on a rocky desert hill outside Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

In a market near Dongmen, a Mecca for discount and wholesale shoppers, a customer asking for dog meat is told to go upstairs.

In his new, zero-sum mode, Muhammad changed the direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca.

Mecca believes people should wait and see if the economic stimulus package takes hold as well as keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve rate.

The United States is still a Mecca for filmmakers.

LIKE another famous town that beckons visitors in a searing desert, Mecca has only one big, if different, draw.

The north shore is a mountain biking mecca and I run on rainforest trails every weekend.

Ironically, Mormonism's Mecca is such a place.

The research was served up at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago, a mecca for thick-crust pizza.

Over the next week, Mecca will be the most crowded place on earth.

Muslims from around the world are in the Saudi city of Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage.

prescribed genuflections and prostrations accompany the prayers , which the worshiper recites facing toward mecca.

Thousands of Muslims gather during evening prayer in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Monday.

Saudi men wearing medical masks walked past a shop near the Grand Mosque in Mecca in August during Ramadan.

A disputed ranking, or the recent slump in orders, is not about to dent Donggaocun's ambition of becoming China's violin mecca.

It would take months to fully explore this mecca of consumption that draws traders from every corner of the world.

Indonesian diplomats said they weren't notified before Ms. Sapubi was beheaded with a sword in Mecca on Saturday.

These must be the Mecca of the craft and office worlds, but if you have the space then take note of the boxes, files, and systems used here.

In the year 622, due to the opposition and persecution by the nobility from Mecca, he moved to Medina, to preach.

This town is a fly-fishing mecca with its numerous lakes and dams.

Specific acts, including fasting, daily prayer, and the pilgrimage to Mecca, are considered the pillars of Muslim spiritual life.

A recent vice president, Hamzah Haz, bragged about his polygamy, taking his three wives on trips to Mecca.

Matthew Murphy, creative director at London's B-Store, a mecca for new fashion talent, argues: "It justifies a higher price point. "

My Chinese guidebook, written by a retired diplomat, said it once was described as the Mecca of the Chinese people.

And Mecca suggests that Mr Abbas has little desire at present to take Hamas on either with guns or at the polling booth.

Couples at this local marriage Mecca are arriving from as far away as Great Britain, Canada, Hungary, French Polynesia and Singapore.

And a tiled prayer niche from Iran that was installed facing East, toward Mecca.

On this day in 622, the prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira, or "flight, " from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution.

When a venerable Saudi cleric in the holy city of Mecca challenges a central pillar of Saudi society, it is big news.

Portland, Ore. , which has become a mecca for street-food lovers, rents out spots in privately owned parking lots to vendors.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims circle the Kaaba inside and outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The traditional mosque faces west towards Mecca, the spiritual home of the Muslims.

A Chinese railway company has won the contract to build a light rail project in Saudi Arabia for the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

Officials in Saudi Arabia say the death toll from Thursday's stampede during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca has risen to 362.

Million of Muslims participate in Hajj every year, traveling to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

And that leaves out other devotions, such as fasting in Ramadan, or the pilgrimages to Mecca which draw nearly 700, 000 Egyptians a year.

Several men wash their hands and faces with water from teakettles and kneel toward Mecca for evening prayers.

In 1951 Eric Morley had been working for the Mecca Group for almost five years.

Some busloads of Iraqi pilgrims were still en routeto Mecca, birthplace of the Prophet Mohammed, when the first buses turned back.

Most of the financially well-off people love to spend the month in Mecca, the holy city of Muslims in Arab.

First, as far as I know, Mecca has not a single Jewish inhabitant, so why build a synagogue there?

New York is a film-lover's town and Film Forum is Mecca for the city's cinephiles.

Islam's most sacred shrine is at Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

A well-designed building in Jeddah could enhance the visits of the millions of pilgrims who pass through it each year on their way to Mecca.

Nearly two years ago, at Mecca, the two groups did sign a short-lived unity accord.

Dali is a touristic and shopping Mecca for the Chinese. Gringos congregate on "Foreigner Street" for some western food and conversation.

Cattle and camels still earn money, as do goats shipped to Saudi Arabia for slaughter by pilgrims to Mecca.

Muslim pilgrims fling pebbles at three walls called jamarat in the city of Mina just east of Mecca.

No other city in Asia may have been deflated more quickly by the global recession than the Chinese gambling mecca of Macau.

Olivia, this is a real surprise since Minnesota has long been considered a real Mecca for loveless couples.

Haj is the main annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which is due to start in November.

They also had control of the Muslim holy places, Mecca and Medina, in Arabia.

It's also an unparalleled engine of innovation, the mecca of high tech, biotech and now clean tech.

They shun jacket and tie, exclude women from the workspace, and even aspire to replace Greenwich Mean Time with Mecca Mean Time.

Mecca, lies in the arid region of Hejaz, Western Saudi Arabia. It's the starting point for every Hajj.

It is building airports in Egypt and elsewhere. In Mecca and Medina, it oversees vast real estate projects.

The village, home of the famous Pinehurst Resort, is a golfing mecca located in the Sandhills of North Carolina.

In this regard, Saudi Arabia admitted that their annual pilgrimage to Mecca, there is regulatory difficulties.

He is plan to go on a pilgrimage to mecca.

Goats are mainly exported to Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage.

On the outside, nothing warns you that it is a mecca for the mature.

More than 330 Chinese Muslims boarded a charter flight, starting their pilgrimage to Mecca.

Pilgrims pray on the side of Mount Arafat, near Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Monday, Nov.

Saudi special forces show their skills during a military parade in preparation for the Hajj in the Saudi city of Mecca on November 10, 2010.

On Zheng's orders, he participates in the haj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.

Both the new strain and seasonal flus will be circulating in the world, increasing the risk of flus mixing in Mecca.

Lying back on my bed I noticed an arrow on the ceiling -- pointing to Mecca.

This world-famous destination is a Mecca for anyone who loves to surf.

A travel agent who organizes trips to Mecca said that the Muslin community didn't believe in insurance.

Islam's Prophet Mohammed is buried in Medina's landmark mosque, which is Islam's second holiest shrine after Mecca.

Beijing is a Mecca for international tourists.

During Art Basel, the cultural city of Basel becomes a world mecca of art.

At 60 feet wide and 8, 000 feet long, the seawall is a tourist Mecca, home to a ferry dock and adjacent to a major thoroughfare.

Hawaii has become a mecca for vacationing Japanese.

You might not think of China as a Mecca of legal activity, but more and more Chinese are turning to the courts to resolve business disputes.

He was then invited by the Saudi king to visit Mecca.

Muslims on the Hajj pilgrimage take a rest in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia on November 15, 2010.

New York is not Mecca to me.

The epidemic was stopped before the annual pilgrimage to Mecca got under way.

a pilgrimage to Mecca made by the faithful.

because the club has long been the world's high altar of the "Mecca" , and therefore an endless stream of visitors and tourists.

Monza is the Mecca of Ferrari's tifosi and I think that there will be a lot of Finnish fans, too.

It's evident at City Tavern, a mecca for 20-some things in San Francisco's ritzy Marina district.

Kaaba: A Moslem shrine in Mecca toward which the faithful turn to pray.

Must be after a long time of aging, weaken the new wine, and the wine that is peaceful mecca, fine and coordination.

"This city is Mecca for Art Nouveau fans, " says Inga.

Made a secret visit to Mecca during Haj.

The United States, from which about 15, 000 Muslims go to Mecca each year, has not made them a separate vaccine-priority group.

The first coffeehouses were opened in Mecca and were called "kaveh kanes" .

A helicopter hovers over Namira Mosque at Mount Arafat, southeast of the Saudi holy city of Mecca, on November 26, 2009.

The Billboard Hot 100 is the Mecca for mainstream music maniacs.

Muslim pilgrims pray inside the Grand mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Nov.

Later, during the Renaissance, Rome became a mecca for artists of all kinds.

In 1990, 1, 426 pilgrims were crushed to death in a pedestrian tunnel at the holy city of Mecca.

On a chilly autumn afternoon last year, she gave a women-only lecture for would-be investors in Shibuya, a Tokyo fashion Mecca.

The mosque sits askew to the square, at about 45 degrees, so that it faces Mecca.

Mosques are oriented so that the mihrab faces Mecca.

First 323 Chinese pilgrims return from Mecca.

Thailand has become the tourist mecca of Asia.

Four pilgrims have died of swine flu as they take part in this year's annual Mecca pilgrimage, Saudi officials say.

Eid al-Adha also takes place immediately after the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca that is a pillar of Islamic Faith.

He has been asked to join the Moslem delegation which is shortly going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

a pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.

A spread of prayer mats face Mecca.

They can freely attend church services, make pilgrimage to Mecca or pray in Buddhist temples.

Our group had stayed at the Chinese Mecca for eleven minutes.

Muslim pilgrims perform Friday prayers in front of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, on November 12, 2010.

For example, when he retook Mecca, he granted amnesty to all of the Arab pagans he defeated.

Lastly we must consider the first verses which came to Mohammed, in Mecca.

Muslim pilgrim pray outside Namira mosque in Arafat near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on November 5, 2011.

Lord's is the cricketer's mecca.

A Muslim pilgrim prays on Mount Mercy on the plains of Arafat outside the holy city of Mecca November 26, 2009.

23Muslim pilgrims pray atop Mount Arafat, southeast of Mecca, on November 15, 2010.

when Hussein, the Sherif of Sherifs, became Emir of Mecca in 1908, his telephone number was Mecca 1.

5Saudi Arabian men ride on the newly-opened Holy Sites metro light rail in Mecca on November 2, 2010.

Paris was unstintingly at that time the Mecca of music and the abode of the greatest musicians.

"Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time, this is the goal, " Arkubi said.

For example, some people believe that if you read Coke's Arabic logo backwards, it says: "No Muhammad, No Mecca" .

Two problems. The first is that Mecca keeps moving.

solstice line from Mecca is again 1. 618.

In this impressive in spring and autumn were more than 400 kinds of birds, there is "Bird Watching Mecca" reputation.

The very first "old friends" usually shared a common feature that all of them had been to Yan'an, Mecca of Chinese revolution.

Many Moslem pilgrims go to Mecca every year.

Malaysia , my Mecca , our will go to!

I'm thinking of going to my brother's He lives by the see , a summer Mecca.

Your temple is my Mecca, Your temple is my Kabah.

Afterwards they were ashamed and stopped growing the weed, and a delegation of them went to mecca to ask Allah's forgiveness

life. Byers has't been to Mecca yet. But he did take part in the Fast of Ramadan for the first time.

Collected here are scenes of this year's Hajj and Eid al-Adha, from Mecca and around the globe. [42 photos]

Beirut, Lebanon: A laser beam points in the direction of Mecca from a minaret of Mohammed al-Amin mosque

Thanks to company shutdowns, Palo Alto the erstwhile Mecca of masculinity is now just 49 percent Male

Islam Holy Land: Mecca movie city: Los Angeles beer city: Munich automobile city: Detroit harbor: Rotterdam

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Is there a time to turn to Mecca

The Great Mosque, Makkah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

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New York May Become Newest Bike-Sharing Mecca

some also traveled to mecca from third countries

The publishing Mecca of English Canada

the Holy City (Jerusalem, Rome, Mecca)

wish Mecca's nimbus made you every success;

What an offshore gambling mecca reveals about business in China

pilgrims on their way to Mecca