Or $1.01B per Acre
René Ammann | 25. September 2023
Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to spend another $100 billion to expand the site “so that 30 million worshippers will be able to perform the Hajj by 2030.” (Photo: Saudipics.com/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cost of the world’s most expensive building — Islam's most sacred site and the largest mosque in the world, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia — which covers 99 acres and can accommodate up to four million people during the Hajj: $100 billion (£72.6bn)
Close, but not even close: the second most expensive building in the world, according to the source linked here, is the Abraj Al Bait, also in Mecca, a complex of seven towers built in 2012 at a cost of $15 billion (£10.9bn). (Photo: Nadir Hashmi/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)