Videos and photos | Rare footage of the restoration of the Holy Kaaba in 1996

Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - rare scenes that we were able to reach in Arab Weather, documenting the process of restoring the Holy Kaaba under the direct order and supervision of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, may God have mercy on him in 1417 AH / corresponding to 1996 CE, and the restoration work began after the dinner prayer on the tenth of the month Muharram, a neighborhood where a white wooden curtain was set up around the bright Kaaba, so that only the black stone would appear from it, with a door for entry in the northwestern side and a door for exit in the southwestern side.

Restoration of the Holy Kaaba in 1417 AH / 1996 AD

The following pictures show the white wooden curtain that was built around the Holy Kaaba, in addition to a group of photos showing the restoration processes of the Holy Kaaba,

• Decipher the stones that make up the inner body of the walls that need restoration after numbering them.
• Examination of the outer wall of the Kaaba; Where no structural defects were noticed on him, and it appeared that the inner lining was a filling of the spaces between the rocks in the outer walls, which take in their inner form what resemble the roots of the molars inside the gums. These roots lengthen and shorten and are often pointed at their ends, forming voids as Between them.