The Great Mosque at Mecca

Print of a drawing entitled 'The Great Mosque at Mecca, the inviolable house of Allah, with its seven towers and seventeen gates'. The print depicts the courtyard within the mosque, Al-Masjid al-Haram, with the Kaaba at the centre. Inscriptions adjacent to many of the various buildings.

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