Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower is an insult to Islam and to taste

[IamBengali]

Why did Saudi Govt. build 5 star clock tower in Kaaba? It has harmed the heritage so much. Also the hotel looks so ugly. Don't they have decent architect? They need to understand Ka'aba is not a place to have a 5 star hotel in the complex. This hotel also has a shopping mall, party hall. Who knows may be dance party hall. Kaaba is a place for worship. Expand the area but do it in a way to ensure the site maintains its religious and cultural significance. Its not a property of only Saudis. Its a property of whole Muslim world. Saudi Govt. is just the caretaker of the site. Don't ruin such sacred site by constructing 5 star hotel. Also the round structure they are constructing in Ka'aba making the site even more narrow rather than wide. They are slowly turning it a multistory building.

This tower is currently one of the ugliest architectures in the world.

Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower is an insult to Islam and to taste


Let me introduce you to the Abraj Al-Bait Towers, also known as the The Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower.


The Abraj Al-Bait Towers are like a giant middle finger to taste and elegance

This is probably the most hideous monstrosity and insult to elegance and taste in human architectural history. They scaled up London’s Big Ben to 2000 feet and made it into a seven star super posh hotel. It hangs over the Masjid al-Haram, the holiest site in islam. (and you thought the “ground zero mosque” was bad)

Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower is an insult to Islam and to taste | Adventures of Carbon Atoms



The Saudis have spoiled Mecca – but the British Museum doesn’t want you to know

And the situation in Mecca is worsening: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah plans to redevelop the centre of the holy city into “high-rises and shopping malls”. Mecca's mayor, Osama al-Bar, justifies all this by saying that “a tower is very much like a mountain in its height”. Never before have "mountains" looked so garish and distressingly ugly.

The most shocking details – which Nick Cohen and Mehdi Hasan have also written about – are to do with the destruction of sites that were once considered extremely holy by many Muslims. They were razed because the Wahhabis, who conquered Mecca in 1924, believe that “revering structures with ties to the Prophet can lead to idolatrous practices”. To that end, the house of Mohammed’s wife, Khadijah, was destroyed – and in its place now is a “complex of hundreds of bathrooms”. The prophet’s own birthplace was first turned into a cattle market, then a public library.

The Saudis have spoiled Mecca – but the British Museum doesn’t want you to know – Telegraph Blogs

The round structure made the site even narrower.

 

[Kompromat]

21st century solutions for 21st century problems. They can't demolish everything and replace them with outdated structures just because they look good. There will be almost 2 billion Muslims in the world by 2030 which means a large increase in the number of pilgrims which demands structural upgrades to take them in. Would you rather be roaming in a 21st century looking structure which keeps you safe or get killed while doing the Sai'i ?

 

[Multani]

Why did Saudi Govt. build 5 star clock tower in Kaaba? It has harmed the heritage so much. Also the hotel looks so ugly. Don't they have decent architect? They need to understand Ka'aba is not a place to have a 5 star hotel in the complex. This hotel also has a shopping mall, party hall. Who knows may be dance party hall. Kaaba is a place for worship. Expand the area but do it in a way to ensure the site maintains its religious and cultural significance. Its not a property of only Saudis. Its a property of whole Muslim world. Saudi Govt. is just the caretaker of the site. Don't ruin such sacred site by constructing 5 star hotel. Also the round structure they are constructing in Ka'aba making the site even more narrow rather than wide. They are slowly turning it a multistory building.

This tower is currently one of the ugliest architectures in the world.

Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower is an insult to Islam and to taste


Let me introduce you to the Abraj Al-Bait Towers, also known as the The Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower.


The Abraj Al-Bait Towers are like a giant middle finger to taste and elegance

This is probably the most hideous monstrosity and insult to elegance and taste in human architectural history. They scaled up London’s Big Ben to 2000 feet and made it into a seven star super posh hotel. It hangs over the Masjid al-Haram, the holiest site in islam. (and you thought the “ground zero mosque” was bad)

Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower is an insult to Islam and to taste | Adventures of Carbon Atoms



The Saudis have spoiled Mecca – but the British Museum doesn’t want you to know

And the situation in Mecca is worsening: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah plans to redevelop the centre of the holy city into “high-rises and shopping malls”. Mecca's mayor, Osama al-Bar, justifies all this by saying that “a tower is very much like a mountain in its height”. Never before have "mountains" looked so garish and distressingly ugly.

The most shocking details – which Nick Cohen and Mehdi Hasan have also written about – are to do with the destruction of sites that were once considered extremely holy by many Muslims. They were razed because the Wahhabis, who conquered Mecca in 1924, believe that “revering structures with ties to the Prophet can lead to idolatrous practices”. To that end, the house of Mohammed’s wife, Khadijah, was destroyed – and in its place now is a “complex of hundreds of bathrooms”. The prophet’s own birthplace was first turned into a cattle market, then a public library.

The Saudis have spoiled Mecca – but the British Museum doesn’t want you to know – Telegraph Blogs

The round structure made the site even narrower.

@IamBengali You are an excellent brother. I knew you had love in your heart and humanity.

The Saudi wahabis have vandalised our sacred city by building this ugly tower, which now Muslims are calling the Dajjal tower.

It has ruined the skyline of the sacred place, and many pilgrims come back feeling suffocated. They do not want to look up and see a huge ugly clock.

 

[al-Hasani]

@IamBengali as we know him.



The thing that you call "a round structure" is temporary. It's constructed so disabled people on wheelchairs can encircle the Kaaba as you can see by looking at the people walking on it. It will be there as long as the expansion work is taking place.

Do you even have any idea how the Masjid al-Haram is going to look like when finished and the area around it?

Another troll thread by your likes.

 

[Kompromat]

@IamBengali as we know him.



The thing that you call "a round structure" is temporary. It's constructed so disabled people on wheelchairs can encircle the Kaaba as you can see by looking at the people walking on it. It will be there as long as the expansion work is taking place.

Do you even have any idea how the Masjid al-Haram is going to look like when finished and the area around it?

Another troll thread by your likes.

Guess there would be 20 more threads on this topic.

 

[Indischer]

21st century solutions for 21st century problems. They can't demolish everything and replace them with outdated structures just because they look good. There will be almost 2 billion Muslims in the world by 2030 which means a large increase in the number of pilgrims which demands structural upgrades to take them in. Would you rather be roaming in a 21st century looking structure which keeps you safe or get killed while doing the Sai'i ?

I have a doubt here. How much of the development is truly for the spiritual Muslim who's put his life's savings for a Hajj? As in, are those 5 or 7-star hotels, the symbols of modern extravagance, really necessary next to the holiest spiritual site in Islam, a Deen which stresses on Zakaat and austerity?

 

[al-Hasani]

I have a doubt here. How much of the development is truly for the spiritual Muslim who's put his life's savings for a Hajj? As in, are those 5 or 7-star hotels, the symbols of modern extravagance, really necessary next to the holiest spiritual site in Islam, a Deen which stresses on Zakaat and austerity?

How much of the development was truly for the spiritual Muslim when the Abbasids, Fatimids and Ottomans built luxurious architecture? As in very luxurious architecture that only a few lucky Muslims ever managed to visit? Are symbols of such extravagance really necessary next to the holiest spiritual site in Islam, a Deen which stresses on Zakaat and austerity?

You see what I did here?

 

[Arabian Legend]

21st century solutions for 21st century problems. They can't demolish everything and replace them with outdated structures just because they look good. There will be almost 2 billion Muslims in the world by 2030 which means a large increase in the number of pilgrims which demands structural upgrades to take them in. Would you rather be roaming in a 21st century looking structure which keeps you safe or get killed while doing the Sai'i ?

Maybe we should dig caves for the likes of ImBengali and Multani. I think exception should have been taken into consideration.


What a beautiful Tower.

 

[al-Hasani]

Guess there would be 20 more threads on this topic.

I don't get it either. I am not that big a fan of the Abraj al-Bait but now they are complaining about a temporary feature for disabled people and they don't have a clue about how the Masjid al-Haram is going to look like in the end.

It seems to me that they just want to spread hatred.

 

[doritos]

The tower should have been further spaced from the Ka'aba if you ask me.

 

[Kompromat]

I have a doubt here. How much of the development is truly for the spiritual Muslim who's put his life's savings for a Hajj? As in, are those 5 or 7-star hotels, the symbols of modern extravagance, really necessary next to the holiest spiritual site in Islam, a Deen which stresses on Zakaat and austerity?

There is nothing wrong with making Makkah and Madina self sustaining economic cities. I agree with your later points though we live in 21st century and modern engineering is the answer to the challenges it poses in regards to Hajjaj ability to interact with the two holy cities.

 

[Multani]

Yes, why does the Italian government not build a monstrosity right on the head of St Peter's Basilica?

Why did it need to happen to our sacred place the Ka'ba ??? Imagine someone building a monstrosity right next to the Haram Shareef in Jerusalem. Will the Israeli government allow it? Heck even the Jewish people take care of the sacredness of their city, and have not turned it into a commercial mall. You come out of the Haram Shareef in Makkah, and what do you see? HARDEES, MCDONALDS,


They are calling this clock tower the eye of Sauran [ from Lord of the Rings ]

 

[Kompromat]

Maybe we should dig caves for the likes of ImBengali and Multani. I think exception should have been taken into consideration.


What a beautiful Tower.

Catering for millions of hujjaj is not easy, especially when their numbers will explode in the future as Muslim countries get richer and their numbers grow coupled with the fact that the Middle east is becoming a global aviation hub.

 

[al-Hasani]

@Multani

There are only 3 McDonalds "restaurants" in Makkah. You cannot see any McDonalds from the Masjid al-Haram. So what are you exactly talking about?

Have you forgot that Makkah is not a village but one of the bigger cities of the ME?

Besides I am against fast food chains especially foreign but people of the ME love it so nothing to do.

A few months ago I dreamt that the Abraj al-Bait collapsed.

 

[SHAMK9]

Retarded thread by a well known hormonal troll