Thursday, September 10, 2009

Do you know what Kiswa has to do with Kaa'aba?

The Kiswah is the special cloth which covers the whole of Kaa'ba, the Central Worshipping place of Moslems, in Makkah, Suadi Arabia, is special factory designed. The cloth is changed annually. The cloth costs Saudi Riyals 17 million every year. The cloth is made up of 670 kg of silver dyed black, about 120 kg of pure gold and  about 50 kg silver used for writing Quranic (Moslem Holy Book) verses on the cloth. The total area of the cloth is 658 square meters.

Information Source - PakistanCommoners

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