Seerah in 3D
Makkah, Madinah, the Ka'bah and the Prophet's Mosque in 3D
Makkah and Madinah are rebuilt on real terrain, with the valleys and mountains where the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ lived and taught. Two close-up scenes show the Ka'bah as Quraysh rebuilt it about 605 CE, five years before the first revelation, and the mosque of the Prophet ﷺ as it was first built in 1 AH, to walk through at eye height. Choose a scene and move through it at your own pace, from the years before revelation to the young community in Madinah.
610-615 CE · early revelation
Makkah
The valley around the Ka'bah in the first years of revelation, with the houses of Quraysh set between the mountains that enclose it.
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622-624 CE · the early years
Madinah
The oasis in the years after the Hijrah, where the Prophet ﷺ built his mosque among palm groves and fortified houses, between two fields of black lava.
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622-624 CE · as first built
The Prophet's Mosque
The mosque of the Prophet ﷺ as it was first built, with mud-brick walls and a shade of palm fronds, to walk through at eye height before and after the change of qibla.
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c. 605 CE · as Quraysh rebuilt it
The Ka'bah of Quraysh
The Ka'bah as Quraysh rebuilt it when the Prophet ﷺ was thirty-five, with its raised door, the Black Stone in its eastern corner and the Hijr left outside the walls.
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622 CE · Makkah to Quba
The Hijrah route
The journey of the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr ﵁ from Makkah to Quba over the real terrain of the Hijaz: the Cave of Thawr, the coast road, Umm Ma'bad, the pursuit of Suraqa and the arrival, with every reconstructed stretch marked as such.
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10 AH · Makkah to Arafat
The Farewell Hajj
The pilgrimage of the Prophet ﷺ in 10 AH over the real terrain from Makkah to Mina, Muzdalifah and Arafat: the days of the Hajj, Jabal al-Rahmah, the jamarat and the Farewell Sermon, each part given as text at the place and on the day it was spoken.
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These are interpretive reconstructions placed on real terrain data, with heights exaggerated so the landscape reads clearly.