Word: meccas
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RISE OF WAHHABIS Early 1800s The Wahhabis, an orthodox Islamic sect that eventually allied with the prominent al Saud family, launch outward from central Arabia, invading Hejaz and Syria, taking Mecca...
ISLAM'S HOLIEST SITES King Fahd's official title includes Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina. More than 2 million Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca...
...It’s true. I am in a man mecca right now. A manwich,” said Burton...
...communities. Where Best Buys are replaced with Rent-A-Centers, and only a confusing (and often routinely late and slow) system of buses connect their community, their Boston isn’t on any tourist map. Instead, like much of the rest of low-income America, it is a mecca for obesity...
...Angeles, though, going to Starbucks is decidedly pedestrian. Although plenty of tourists stop there en route from Hollywood Boulevard to Universal Studios, it is not for Angelenos. Instead, L.A.’s coffee cognoscenti head to the Mecca of Mocha: the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. There are 104 branches of the Coffee Bean in Southern California, and, apart from a handful in Arizona and Nevada, not a single branch exists elsewhere in the country...