“Another great thing about winning a million dollars is you can go to places like Chez Panisse whenever you want and have really top end food,” shares Schneider of Alice Waters’ beloved food Mecca.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerylbrunner/2023/09/29/amy-schneider-debuts-a-memoir-in-the-form-of-a-question/

A sequel to “Mecca” is coming, she told us, that will take place in late 2020, during the peak of COVID, and will follow a nurse, an animal control officer and her fictional CHP officer, Johnny Frias, a reader favorite.

Source: https://www.pressenterprise.com/2023/11/23/writer-susan-straight-represents-riverside-in-santa-ana-talk/

Finding my room, I took a breath, steadied myself and swung open the door to Mecca for trainspotting.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-12669707/I-spent-night-trainspotters-paradise-675-room-Marriott-St-Pancras-Renaissance-Hotel-view-overlooked-trains-platform.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Gallina became the Paramus municipal court judge in 2011 after the all-Republican council dumped the sitting judge, Joseph Mecca.

Source: https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/judge-may-have-infuenced-bergen-mayors-race-candidate-says/

He added that Tinubu would go to London thereafter before proceeding to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.

Source: https://onlinenigeria.com/stories/318396-apc-campaign-no-clandestine-meeting-between-cjn-tinubu.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apc-campaign-no-clandestine-meeting-between-cjn-tinubu

In 2019, 35 Arab and Asian expatriates were killed when a bus collided with another vehicle as the travelled from Medina to Mecca for the Umrah.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-65097957?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Muslim pilgrims pray at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca on June 22, 2023, as they arrive for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Source: https://themedialine.org/top-stories/she-has-to-wait-a-little-longer-high-hajj-costs-force-families-to-divide-pilgrimages/

Muslims around the world are required by their faith to perform the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lives if they are able.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/mecca-ap-saudi-arabia-grand-mosque-umrah-b2367017.html

Pilgrims walk outdoors for hours in broiling heat around holy sites in Mecca and the surrounding desert.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/25/essentials-for-the-hajj-from-sunhats-to-shoe-bags-a-guide-to-gear-muslims-bring-to-the-pilgrimage/

The former Mecca bingo hall in Fishergate has also been demolished to make way for students flats, as has the former Plumbase plumbing centre just across the road.

Source: https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23380135.enterprise-car-hire-just-tyres-close-foss-islands-road/?ref=rss

The President-elect was nowhere near Mecca, neither did he go for the Lesser Hajj.

Source: https://thewillnews.com/exclusive-tinubu-lobbyists-on-wild-goose-chase-to-mecca/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exclusive-tinubu-lobbyists-on-wild-goose-chase-to-mecca

The two women claimed they had recently converted to Islam and said they were traveling by bus to to Mecca.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1758183/bi-foils-bid-of-2-filipinas-to-enter-saudi-arabia-by-pretending-to-be-mecca-pilgrims

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Haj pilgrimage, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Jun 25, 2023.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/saudi-arabia-mecca-haj-heat-pilgrimage-3585356?cid=cna_flip_070214

Ties between Riyadh and Tehran nosedived in July 1987 when Saudi security forces violently cracked down on an anti-US protest by Iranian pilgrims in the holy city of Mecca during the pilgrimage.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-iran-exchange-ambassadors-after-seven-year-fallout