Discussion » Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned'

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Posted by che, around 8th April 2009:
 
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/m...

Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.

"There are no major errors but corrections have been made for some old mosques, thanks to modern techniques," he said.

"In any case, it does not affect the prayers."

No, it doesn't affect the prayers; if you are praying to an invisible sky man it doesn't matter which way you face, cos he DOESN'T EXIST.