In less than a week, over a million people would pass alongside the Kaaba.

The basic shape and structure of the Kaaba have not changed since then.

Pilgrims do not walk in the area between this wall and the Kaaba.

Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of marble and limestone.

It was during this siege that the Kaaba burned down.

Also the Kaaba is the most circumambulated structure in this world.

Three pillars stand inside the Kaaba, with a small altar set between one and the other two.

The kaaba is the place that the Muslims pray towards.

There in the holy Kaaba, along with men from all over the world, they are required to keep their faces uncovered.

For many, the sight of the Kaaba was overwhelming.

Kaaba closed the throat before it reached the heart.

The clan leaders agreed to wait for the next man to come through the gate of Kaaba and ask him to choose.

Ali knew that he was born in the Kaaba.

At some point during the siege, the Kaaba was badly damaged in a fire.

This is the form in which the Kaaba has survived to this day.

Muslims are required to make a pilgrimage once in a lifetime to the Kaaba.

However, some sources contend that he was born 'beside' the Kaaba rather than 'inside' it.

Thereafter, he never went to the Kaaba to pray to the idols.

Muslims are supposed to pray five times a day while facing in the Kaaba's direction.

Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba during prayers, no matter where they are.

The focus of this journey is the Kaaba, a small rectangular building around which a huge mosque has been built.

Marwah being the mount just outside the perimeter of the Kaaba.

"His agent detected radiation near the curtain around the Kaaba.

Hatim, a low wall originally part of the Kaaba.

The Kaaba's appearance has not changed since then.