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.
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Source | unnamed artist in Journal des Voyages 26 November 1905 page 445 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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