The picture is black and white and was taken after a heavy rain storm. The entire area is flooded with water about knee depth in some areas and in other areas it appears the water is waist deep. The Kabaa (large square building) is in the middle of the picture and is covered by a black cloth with an intricate band of silver around the middle. About a dozen men are walking around the area. Around the outside of the picture are square plain looking two story buildings. On the left and in the front is a tower of black rods that seems be to narrower at the top. The rods that go around the tower are perhaps 2 feet apart and held together by rods on the four corners.
Kaaba

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This photo was taken after a heavy rain storm in Mecca, Saudi Arabia sometime in the 1960s and shows a flooded Great Mosque and Kaaba (the large black structure in the middle).

Photo Submitted by: Abdulrhman Al-Hussaen

This photograph is part of the Tour Saudi Arabia Photo Gallery
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