What is this?

[BurtWorm]

It took me half a minute to realize what the subject of this photo is.

[KitchenWitch]

1. Is it a bunch of people at some sort of shrine?

[BurtWorm]

4. It

is.

[notadmblnd]

2. penguins?

[NYC]

3. No idea.

Please post an answer after people have had time to ponder.

[NYC]

7. Never mind.

I clicked on properties. Quite a view.

[Left Is Write]

9. I did too.

[newsguyatl]

5. hajj?

[BurtWorm]

You

are right.

"Opening the month of pilgrimage, or hajj, millions of Muslims gathered outside of Mecca, Saudi Arabia."

[notadmblnd]

13. I thought that at first but I saw all the rocks

and decided it was penguins. These 40 yr+ eyes of mine have got to go.

[BurtWorm]

15. I don't blame you. I really couldn't see people in this picture

for the longest time. I thought they were some kind of insect at first. The thing that gave it away was the eraser-like object in the middle. I knew it had to be some kind of stone structure, and then I started to see human forms at the edges of the photo and realized they werepeople and everyone was wearing white.

[donheld]

10. The black thing is the hajj

[Sporadicus]

11. Actually, It's the Kaaba

Kaaba, also known as, Ka'bah, Kabah and Caaba is the center of the holiest place of worship in Islam (Submission in English), i.e. the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, Al Masjid Al-Haram. Its name means the cube in Arabic as it is a cube shaped stone structure built in the middle of the Sacred Mosque. The Kaaba was built by prophet Abraham as a landmark for the House of God ,for the sole purpose of worshipping of God alone.

http://www.submission.org/hajj/kaaba.html

[donheld]

14. I sit corrected

i'm to lazy to stand.

[SnowGoose]

6. Isn't it Hajj time?

[Debi]

8. Mecca?

:shrug:

[ekhunter]

12. it is people taking cover as a b1 bomber is flying over.

[Lex]

16. The things that people do for religious purposes

are just amazing!

I've also personally thought it was interesting that one religion thinks it is so much more sensible than another.

A great picture!