kaaba

Given the Kaaba is only 12m x 10.5m its a very small place to concentrate people in.

The Kaaba is pretty famous; the meteorite inside is much less famous than that.

How in the name of Allah is the nominal cost of mosque around the Kaaba $100 billion?

The Kaaba in Mecca was originally in rectangular shape before taking the modern square footprint or iconic cube structure [2].

If someone bombed the Vatican or the Kaaba would you consider that a very big deal?

For example, one of the gods housed in the Kaaba was the pre-Islamic god Hubal.

Muslims pray towards the Kaaba (the house of God, built for him by Ibrahim (Abraham)) which is in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The Kaaba was not covered in black until around the 13 century.

A Hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari states that the Kaaba was the First Mosque on Earth, and the Second Mosque was the Temple in Jerusalem.

Suggesting the Kaaba in Mecca is the same category of thing as a giant ball of yarn roadside attraction misses a great deal of context.

In fact, the easiest mosque orientations were not calculated at all, but relied on astronomical horizon phenomena, not least because the Kaaba itself is astronomically aligned.

The most coveted meteorite is still the Kaaba black stone.

Ibn Kathir regarded this tradition as weak and preferred instead the narration by Ali ibn Abi Talib that although several other temples might have preceded the Kaaba, it was the first "House of God", dedicated solely to Him, built by His instruction and sanctified and blessed by Him as stated in Quran 22:26–29.

Maybe not the tallest, but still the 3rd tallest, and completely dominates the Great Mosque and the Kaaba.

In Mecca alone, millions of pilgrims will fulfill the religious obligation of circling the Kaaba.

There are Umrah/Hajj costs to pay to get anywhere near the Kaaba.