Derived from the Arabic word Ka'ab, which literally means cube. It is a cube shaped stone built structure wrapped in black cloth. Into one corner of its wall the Hajr-e-Aswad (Black stone) is laid. It was built by Abraham (PBUH) and his son Ishmael(PBUH).

the sanctuary of Mecca containing the famous Black Stone, where Muslim turn to pray.

48′ high roughly cubical structure built by Abraham and Ishmael as a place to worship God, and the endpoint of the Hajj