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They have slept in the world’s biggest tent city, they have drunk water from the Zamzam well together: a heaving throng of nearly 2 million people from all over the world.

Mecca Saudi Arabia world’s biggest tent city bird view

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Abraj Kudai is a hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia currently under construction and projected to open in 2017.

Abraj Kudai is a hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia currently under construction and projected to open in 2017.

When completed, it will be the largest hotel in the world consisting of a ring of 12 towers 45 stories high, with 10,150 bedrooms, 70 restaurants, and five rooftop helipads, royal floors, and a congress center. There will also be five levels for the sole use of the Saudi Royal family.

There will also be five levels for the sole use of the Saudi Royal family. Fancy Bedrooms in Abraj Kudai – hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia currently under construction and projected to open in 2017.

There will also be five levels for the sole use of the Saudi Royal family. Fancy Bedrooms in Abraj Kudai – hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia currently under construction and projected to open in 2017.

Abraj Kudai largest hotel in the world is under construction only 1.7 kilometers from the Grand Mosque in Mecca and is expected to be completed in 2017

Abraj Kudai largest hotel in the world is under construction only 1.7 kilometers from the Grand Mosque in Mecca and is expected to be completed in 2017

10 of the towers will provide four-star accommodations, while the other two towers will be reserved for special clientele offering five-star amenities and they will be separated from the rest of the buildings. Within the hotel also has a bus station, shopping center, and parking on three levels.

Abraj Kudai in Mecca is the largest hotel in the world consisting of a ring of 12 towers 45 stories high, with 10,150 bedrooms, 70 restaurants, and five rooftop helipads, royal floors, and a congress center.

Mecca has radically altered to accommodate this growing increase of pilgrims. Up until the first half of the 20th century, this was a small city of spacious stone homes famed for their mashrabiyya, or latticed windows and verandas.

Tens of thousands of people come to the Grand Mosque every day to circle the Kaaba 7 times as part of the Umrah pilgrimage.

Mecca Saudi Arabia Kaaba black cubic epicenter of this sanctuary city bird view

World’s biggest tent city in Mecca

Mecca has radically altered to accommodate this growing increase of pilgrims.

Mecca Saudi Arabia Fairmont Makkah clock Royal tower

Tens of thousands of people come to the Grand Mosque every day to circle the Kaaba 7 times as part of the Umrah pilgrimage.

Mecca Saudi Arabia Kaaba black cubic epicenter of this sanctuary city bird view