The+Kaaba

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What is your building?  Our building is the ka'aba. it is the most holy place for god. Millions of muslims go each year to pray to god.

How is this a modern wonder? Kaaba means cube in arabic.  The Kaaba is built above the black rock where Abraham was told by God to sacrifice his son. It is a cube-shaped building and is considered to be Islam's most sacred site where millions of muslims preform the umrah every day around the Kaaba. According to the Koran, the Kaaba was built by Abraham and his son Ismail.  The Kaaba is built of granite cubes set into a marble base. The interior is finished in marble. The doors are made by gold which wiegh 300 kilograms each. Previously, the Kaaba had silver doors, but these were replaced in 1942.  The Kaaba is covered by a black silk and gold curtain, which is replaced once a year. The band of gold is embroidered Koranic text. The total price is 4,523,825.54 USD.

What are the dimensions? 39 ft x 39 ft. it is a cube which means all its sides are 39 feet.

What scale did you use? =We turned feet into centimeters so that we were able to successfully make it and be able to carry it. (1 ft=1 cm)= What will be the dimensions of your structure? because we turned feet into centimeters, our final dimensions were 39 centimeters x 39 centimeters. So because its a cube, all the sides are equal(39 centimeters).