In early Islam, Muslims faced in the general direction of Jerusalem as the qibla in their prayers before changing the direction to face the Kaaba, believed by Muslims to be a result of a Quranic verse revelation to Muhammad. The current structure was built after the original building was damaged by fire during the siege of Mecca by Umayyads in 683.
It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayt Allah ( Arabic: بَيْت ٱللَّٰه, lit.'House of God') and is the qibla (Arabic: قِبْلَة, direction of prayer) for Muslims around the world. The Kaaba ( Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة, romanized: al-Kaʿba, lit.'the Cube', Arabic pronunciation: ), also spelled Ka'ba, Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa (Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, romanized: al-Kaʿba l-Mušarrafa, lit.'the Honored Ka'ba', Arabic pronunciation: ), is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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