Talk:Masjid al-Haram

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I came to this page and the page on Mecca looking for information on the events of Nov 20, 1979 when a group of Sunni Muslims barricaded themselves within the mosque for 15 days. But I can't seem to find information on this topic anywhere on Wikipedia, except for a brief reference in the biography of King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz. Can anyone who knows about this help and expand on this, either here or on the Mecca page?

Good point! I was looking for the same events today, and couldn't find a thing. Meanwhile, I seem to remember there used to be an extended Wikipedia article about those events. It is beyond imagination that such important events are missing from Wikipedia, so I wonder what happened. (25 April 2006)

[edit] Images

We have three images for this page. 2 are uknown copyright status, 1 is copyrighted, all are crap quality. I'm sure there have to be more sources so can anyone help remedy this? gren 19:35, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Regarding images, this website [1] has some computer generated images of the mosque, but I'm not sure if that's what you're really after. In fact (I just found this), it's excellent, as it's also got clickable panoramic views of the mosque. I'll put it in the external links. --Mpatel 10:59, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

I put up a new pic, The aerial view one, so adjust it as you like--Maliki 786 01:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes we need more images with correct licenses because they keep getting deleted. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 20:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Details

The article is very short considering it is highly important to a large part of human race. The information about Hajj is also only a small paragraph, while it should be at least four big paragraphs. More general details; like what is inside the mosque also seem to be absent. The history abruptly ends when it was constructed. Did nothing notable happen in all these centuries? The image High veiw.JPG seems to have a fake copyright license. The license says it is a work of US govt, but it is sourced from this page, that is copyrighted. The page mentions it is satellite image, but not all satellite images are US-govt works. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 15:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I understand the mosque is the largest in the world by quite some way... holding over a million worshipers... and details?? 82.22.68.162 00:48, 21 September 2006

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I would like to see some information about the most recent renovation of the mosque, as overseen by Mohammed bin Laden and his construction company. He should definitely be mentioned, because it is due to him that this mosque can now accommodate the millions of people per year that it does. Bonus Onus 05:36, 27 December 2006 (UTC)