Saudi Arabia released new images of Maqam-e-Ibrahim in Makkah’s Grand Mosque, Masjid al-Haram, on Wednesday.
The General Presidency for the Affairs of the two holy mosques used a modern technique called stacked panoramic focus to capture detail images of the Maqam-e-Ibrahim or Ibrahim’s Station.
The stone on which Prophet Ibrahim (PBUH) left his imprint when constructing the Khana-e-Kaaba when the walls were too high is known as Maqam-e-Ibrahim.
To preserve the prophet’s footprints, the stone is encased in a gold, silver, and glass box.
Muslims claim that the stone on which the footprints are imprinted, along with the holy Black Stone, Hajr-e-Aswad, descended directly from heaven.
The Maqam-e-Ibrahim is shaped like a square with two oval pits in the center containing the Prophet Ibraham’s footprints (PBUH).
The color of Maqam-e-Ibrahim ranges from white to black to yellow, and its width, length, and height are all 50cm.
It’s about 10-11 meters east of the Khana-e-Kaaba gate, on the road to Safa and Marwah.
Saudi officials captured crystal clear close-up photographs of the Hajr-e-Aswad (sacred Black Stone) of the Khana-e-Kaaba in Makkah for the first time in history on May 4.
The images, which have a resolution of up to 49,000 megapixels, took 7 hours to take, according to a statement released by the Saudi information ministry on Monday.
