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Picture No 10014943
Date 1905
Description RELIGION/ISLAM/MECCA
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Mecca pilgrims, having set eyes on the Kaaba, choose to blind themselves (by staring at red-hot bricks) rather than look at anything less sacred.
Source unnamed artist in Journal des Voyages 26 November 1905 page 445
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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