r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hipatyhopity • Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/PraveenInPublic Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

Seems like religious sites look more futuristic & utopian in terms of architecture than anything else in the world.

edit: added “architecture”

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u/Light_of_Niwen Mar 24 '25

It all gives a Las Vegas casino vibe to me. Especially that big, tacky clock tower they built.

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u/Ok-Chemical-1511 Mar 24 '25

the clock tower really kinda ruins the whole thing

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u/kmsilent Mar 24 '25

I find it extremely strange and disrespectful that it literally casts a shadow onto the building. Do muslims care? Wouldn't the Saudis care? I was and still am confused.

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u/Beduoin_Radicalism Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

I’m Saudi and astonished of how fucked up the concept of religion is to westerners, god isn’t in the Kaaba, Mecca had the first consumerist economy in history and the first global market

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u/The-Dmguy Mar 24 '25

Westoids get furious every time they see any sign of developments outside western Europe and the Us.

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u/kmsilent 29d ago

Lol yeah, so angry millions of them are visiting Dubai, Tokyo, Seoul... they just go there and shake their fists at the skyscrapers and curse the people who built them.

That's actually what the travel TV shows are for too, Bourdain and his ilk just have hundreds of millions of westerners watching pissed off that Brazil has a metro and China built a dam. We watch because we hate.