
"Kaaba Covers and Memories on the Way to Kaaba Exhibition" prepared by collector Bekir Kantarcı met with art lovers.

Collector Bekir Kantarcı said that he first came into possession of the Kaaba cover in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s.

Explaining that the most important pieces of the collection are Kaaba covers, Kantarcı said, "There are not only covers from the Ottoman period, but also very special Kaaba covers from the last 50 years."

Kantarcı stated that in addition to the outer covers of the Kaaba, which have been black for about 150 years, the belt inscriptions, the covers that are hung in the Kaaba every year and changed every year before Eid al-Adha, the inner covers of the Kaaba that are changed every 30 years, the inner covers of the Ravza-i Mutahhara and the pieces sent to Mecca in the last years when the Ottomans dominated the Hejaz lands are also exhibited in the exhibition.


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