- the sacred House
- the sacred House toward which worshippers turn their faces from every land in every prayer
- Abraham
- the prophet who raised the House's foundations in Islamic memory, alongside his son
- Ishmael
- his son who shared in raising the House's foundations in the accounts
- the qibla
- the direction Muslims pray toward from every place on the earth
- the tawaf
- the sevenfold circling of the House, performed in every pilgrimage rite
- the covering
- its black embroidered covering, which is renewed upon it every single year
- the Hajj
- the great journey to the House, owed by every able Muslim once in a lifetime
- the Umrah
- the lesser journey to the House, performed at any time of the year
- the idols
- Mecca's idols, which the conquest cleansed the House of forever
- 630
- the year the Prophet entered the House as conqueror, in Ramadan
- the Grand Mosque
- the great mosque surrounding the House at the heart of Mecca
- the Quraysh
- the tribe that served the House and held its keys before Islam
