Description • Length and width: 10.22 and 11.58 m.
• Cubic granitic building is covered by black silk.
• There is a legend that Kaaba was built by Adam so it is the first building in the Earth. Ibrahim and Ismail rebuilt the Kaaba on the old foundations (-2000). In 693 he had the remnants of al-Zubayr's Kaaba razed, and rebuilt on the foundations set by the Quraysh.
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