facing Mecca
Islamic worship orientation
Facing Mecca describes the orientation Muslims take during prayer, turning toward the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia—Islam's holiest site.
The direction from any given location is called the qibla.
Beyond religious practice, the phrase can describe anything oriented toward that point: The mosque is built facing Mecca.
- prayerAddress to deity
- daily prayersScheduled religious observances
- prayer rugMat for Islamic worship
- mosqueIslamic house of worship
- IslamQuranic monotheistic religion
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- ritual gesturesgenuflect, genuflection, prostration, bowing, kneeling
- Islamic prayersalah, salat, namaz, prostration, bowing
- Islamic funeralsburial, shroud, funeral prayer, ritual washing, shrouding