Word: meccas
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Celebrated by more than a billion Muslims worldwide, the three-day festival of Eid al-Adha ends today. The second of two Eids in the year, Eid al-Adha occurs at the close of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj. A time of both joy and reflection, the Eid was commemorated with jubilation and large-scale prayers by the six million plus Muslims in the U.S. The Eid and the pilgrimage preceding it teach a number of universal lessons, of value to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The season reminds us of equality, simplicity, sacrifice and community...
...Jewish refugee from Romania, Wisse attended an officially Protestant high school, going to the mandatory Christmas assemblies and saying the Lord's Prayer every morning. Yet the Montreal of her youth was also a Yiddish cultural mecca, after Jewish immigrants settled in Canada in the 1920s and again after World...
...winter sports mecca is the Harvard men's hockey team's next destination...
...study there because it has become a mecca of affluence and comfort," Chan said. Chan described the library as "more like a plush hotel than a library...
Fenway's first and probably strongest line of defense against this proposal is, of course, nostalgia and sentimentalism. Fenway Park is the mecca of baseball, one of the sport's most sacred shrines. As the misty-eyed Bob Costases of the world constantly remind us, Fenway and its charming idiosyncracies inspire the current generation of throwback stadiums, and the park is the standard against which all others are judged...