Kaaba

Abercrombie, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 1965, A quarter of a million Muslims press toward the sacred Kaaba, then circle it to praise Allah.

沙特阿拉伯麦加，1965年，托马斯·亚伯克隆比，25万名回教徒走向神圣的“天房”，然后把它围起来赞颂真主阿拉。

This made him extremely unpopular with his fellow townsmen because the pilgrimages to the Kaaba were the chief source of such prosperity as Mecca enjoyed.

这种做法使得他那个小城的市民对他极其反感，因为天房的朝圣者是麦加如此繁荣的主要来源。

Mecca was a pagan city at that time, worshipping in particular a black stone, the Kaaba, of great repute throughout all Arabia, and a centre of pilgrimages;

麦加当时是个异教徒的城市，尤其崇拜一块黑石头&天房，它在整个阿拉伯半岛享有盛誉，是朝圣的中心；

Muslim worshippers circle the Kaaba at Mecca's Grand Mosque during Ramadan.

穆斯林朝圣者聚集在麦加的大清真寺周围.

Ironically, this would stretch so far back that many worshipers wouldn't even be able to see the Kaaba they'd come all this way to worship.

然而讽刺的是，扩建部分远至朝圣者根本无法看到他们远道而来朝觐的卡巴天房。