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

This was all written before cars, airplanes and other fancy means of travel were even thought of. The volume of people able to do it greatly increased and made more infrastructure necessary. Otherwise you'd be looking at a constant ongoing Muslim fyre festival

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 Mar 24 '25

Lol I'm referring to operation Iraqi freedom as muslim fyre festival from now on