The Silver & Gold Stardust Kaaba Door Velvet covering is from the "Ottoman" and to look inside you will see the The name "Muhammad" in traditional Thuluth calligraphy, possibly inspired by a 19th century disk in the Hagia Sophia

The Kaaba is the holiest place in Islam. The building is at least thousands of years old, and according to Islamic tradition, dates back to the time of Abraham (Ibrahim). It is towards the Kaaba which all Muslims around the world face during prayer, no matter where they are on Earth.

The building has a mosque built around it, the al-Masjid al-Haram. One of the Five Pillars of Islam is that every Muslim who is able to do so, must travel to Mecca at least once in their lifetime to perform the Hajj pilgrimage, which includes a series of rituals. Multiple parts of the Hajj require that the pilgrims walk several times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction.

This cirumambulation, the Tawaf, is also performed by pilgrims during the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage). However, the most dramatic times are during the Hajj, when two million pilgrims simultaneously gather to circle the building on the same day.

The Kaaba is a large masonry structure roughly the shape of a cube. It is made of granite from the hills near Mecca, and stands upon a marble base, which projects outwards about 30 cm (1 ft). It is approximately high, with sides measuring by . The four corners of the Kaaba roughly face the four points of the compass. In the eastern corner of the Kaaba is the Ruknu l-Aswad " Black Stone" or al-Ħajaru l-Aswad , possibly a meteorite remnant; at the northern corner is the Ruknu l-ˤĪrāqī "The Iraqi corner". The western corner is the Ruknu sh-Shāmī "the Levantine corner" and the southern is Ruknu l-Yamanī "the Yemeni corner".

The Kaaba is covered by a black silk curtain known as the kiswah, which is replaced yearly. About two-thirds of the way up runs a band of gold-embroidered calligraphy with Qur'anic text, including the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahadah.

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