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The first ever photograph taken of the Ka'ba, in 1861, using a wet-plate collodion camera, by the Ottoman Egyptian engineer Muhammad Sadiq Bey (d. 1902), who had studied in France and bought a camera from there back to Egypt.

Photography was barely 20 years old at this time.

Sadiq Bey went to Makkah twice, first time in 1861, and next time in 1880, and took pictures during both trips. This picture is from his second trip in 1880!