mecca

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For decades, Saudi Arabia played an outsize role thanks to its vast oil production and its special status in Islam as home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

In 2016, Philadelphia razed another skateboard Mecca, known as Love Park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

"People have been asking to come in too, it's just been non-stop, it's a Mecca for Harry Potter fans," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

They called it Mecca, and every week, they came to the same stretch of levee next to an abandoned warehouse where Mardi Gras floats were once built.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

They included an Egyptian scientist and his wife, also on their way to Mecca for the Hajj, who insisted I go with them to dinner in a restaurant in Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey