Mecca is located about 80 km from the Red Sea Coast, around a natural well.
Mecca is the most holy city in Islam .
The city is revered from being the first place created on earth, as well as the place where Ibrahim together with his son Isma'il, built the Ka'ba . The Ka'ba, the centre of Islam, is a rectangular building made of bricks. Around the Ka'ba is the great mosque , al-Haram, and around the mosque, in between the mountains, are the houses that make up Mecca. Mecca was a central point on the caravan routes running over the Arabian peninsula at the time of Muhammad . Mecca was revered as a holy city even before the first revelations came to Muhammad.