Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Kaaba

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KAABA, Ka‘ba, or Kaabeh, the sacred shrine of Mahometanism, containing the “black stone,” in the middle of the great mosque at Mecca. See Arabia, vol. ii. p. 262, and Mecca.

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