RE: It wasn't Mohammed who founded Islam.
March 17, 2015 at 3:29 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2015 at 3:35 am by ReptilianPeon.)
Can't be bothered to read through seventeen pages of posts so if this website has already been mentioned I'm sorry. Basically the first Mosques did not face the direction of Mecca. There's a guy who visited the sites of various early Mosques and figured out which direction they were facing. Apparently Petra, in Jordan, was the holy city for a time. I remember there was a Web page with a Zip file one could download which contains markers you can place on Google Maps to prove the Qibla was not Mecca but I can't remember where it is.
http://www.searchformecca.com/Jerusalem.html
http://www.searchformecca.com/Jerusalem.html