It has also attracted controversy within the Muslim community who compared its design to the Kaaba, a stone building in the holy city of Mecca.

Unlike other sacred sites, Mecca is closed off to believers ... which they do again and again in a vast, multi-level building with three massive stone pillars called the Jamarat that stand where ...

The Kiswah is a holy cloth that covers the Kaaba, the sacred stone building at the center of the Great Mosque in Makkah (or Mecca), that is considered to be the physical center of Islam and is ...