WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mecca, Arabic Makkah, ancient Bakkah, city, western Saudi Arabia, located in the Ṣirāt Mountains, inland from the Red Sea coast. It is the holiest of Muslim cities. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was born in Mecca, and it is toward this religious centre that Muslims turn five times daily in prayer (see qiblah).

Detailed explanation-2: -Mecca is the most important place in the Islamic religion as the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. The nearby Medina is the second-most important place in Islam, due to the Prophet Muhammad’s temporary exile there, and is also where the prophet was laid to rest at the time of his death.