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...
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This is crazy.
I can understand if our local mullah gets his mosque wrong in Manchester.
But in Mecca !!
Jesus H. Christ!!!
Dumb Arabs.
How on earth can you not know which direction Kaba is if you are in Mecca!!
This is beyond me.
Why did they get it wrong?
At a guess, because there were mountains in the way, so they had to estimate the correct direction?
I don't think this is really a biggie as I doubt there is a need for pinpoint accuracy. I could be wrong though.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.