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SIZE OF KA BAH
The current height of the Kaa'bah is 39 feet, 6 inches and total size comes to 627 square feet.
The inside room of the Kaa'bah is 13X9 meters.
The Kaa'bah’s walls are one meter wide. The floor inside is 2.2 meters higher than the place where people perform Tawaaf.
The ceiling and roof are two levels made out of wood. They were reconstructed with teak which is capped with stainless steel.
The walls are all made of stone. The stones inside are unpolished, while the ones outside are polished.
the eastern wall was 48 feet and 6 inches
-the Hateem side wall was 33 feet
-the side between the black stone and the Yemeni corner was 30 feet
-the Western side was 46.5 feet
-put a small window close to the roof of the Kaa'bah to allow for light.
-moved the door of the Kaa'bah to ground level and added a second door to the Kaa'bah.
-added nine cubits to the height of the Kaa'bah, making it twenty cubits high.
-its walls were two cubits wide.
-reduced the pillars inside the House to three instead of six as were earlier built by Quraish.
he rebuilt it in the smaller shape which is found today
-took out the Hateem
-walled up the western door (whose signs are still visible today) and left the rest as it was pulled down the wall in the Hateem area.
-removed the wooden ladder Ibn az-Zubayr had put inside the Kaa'bah.
-reduced the door's height by five cubits
-there are two pillars inside (others report 3 pillars)
-there is a table on the side to put items like perfume
-there are two lantern-type lamps hanging from the ceiling
-the space can accommodate about 50 people
-there are no electric lights inside
-the walls and floors are of marble
-there are no windows inside
-there is only one door
-the upper inside walls of the Kaa'bah were covered with some kind of curtain with the Kalimah written on it.