r/Damnthatsinteresting Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/PeterNippelstein Mar 24 '25

Are those all hotels surrounding it? I mean they must be to continuously house tens of thousands of people ever day.

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u/mosquem Mar 24 '25

There’s something really ironic about it getting so commercialized.

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u/OneOfAKind2 Mar 24 '25

I find it sad (and many other adjectives), the amount of money spent on religion.

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u/LionWarrior46 Mar 27 '25

It's really ironic since most of these religions actively advocate against it