This is a FWed email:


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The Kaa'ba is covered by a black cloth known as 'Kiswa', which is produced & changed every year. Special factory designed for the making of Kiswa in Makkah. It costs approx. SR 17million.The cloth is made of 670kgs of silver dyed black, about 120kgs of pure gold & 50kgs of silver used in writing the Qur'anic verses over the cloth. The total area of the cloth is 658sqr meter .

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beautiful work. i love the work that's done on the writing.

MashAllah, 120kgs of gold!
It looks beautiful...First time I saw the internal of the Kaa'ba.
I always wondered though, if you pray INSIDE the Kaa'ba, which way do you face :os?