mecca

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Jim, young and idealistic, is chief mate on a steamer carrying 800 pilgrims from Singapore to Mecca.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

"It is a Mecca of sport in my eyes," adds wing Harry Potter, who moved from England to Melbourne as a 10-year-old.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

At 21, he moved to California, widely known at the time as “the Mecca of RC,” Drake said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025

In Mecca, too, I had played back for myself the twelve years I had spent with Elijah Muhammad as if it were a motion picture.

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