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Ka’ba and Zamzam
Islamic tradition holds that Abraham and Ishmael together built the Ka’ba — the cubic stone structure at the center of the Great Mosque of Mecca — as the first house of pure monotheistic worship (Quran 2:127: ‘And when Abraham was raising the foundations of the House, and Ishmael with him, saying: Our Lord, accept from us.’). The well of Zamzam was miraculously opened for Hagar and the infant Ishmael when they were left in the desert (Genesis 21:19 in the biblical account; detailed in hadith). The Ka’ba predates Muhammad as a religious center — by his era it housed 360 tribal idols. Muhammad’s conquest of Mecca in 630 AD and his destruction of the idols restores the Ka’ba to its Abrahamic monotheistic purpose. The Ka’ba remains the focal point of Muslim prayer and the destination of the Hajj pilgrimage.