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Mecca is now best known for being Islams holiest city revered as the birthplace of Muhammad and the site where Allah first revealed the Quran to him Within Mecca is the Kaaba a building housed within the AlMasjid alHaram Great Mosque that is considered the holiest site and wherever they are in the world Muslims face in the direction of the Kaaba while praying A pilgrimage to Mecca is considered a necessity for devout Muslims at some point in their lives and the city itself is off limits to nonMuslims Indeed Mecca is so integral to Islam that the name of the city has entered the English lexicon and is a commonplace reference to any area closely associated with something such as Paris often being called the mecca of fashion