🏙 Towns & cities
Mecca
Saudi Arabian city and capital of the Makkah province
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · 21.4225, 39.8261
Mecca is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Mecca, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 1 more.
1 place inside Mecca has a page of its own — listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Mecca as well.
“Malcolm X is the first non-documentary, and the first American film, to be given permission to film in Mecca (or within the Haram Sharif).”
Movies filmed in Mecca
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Mecca as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
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Muhammad: The Messenger of God
2015
“As 40% of the story takes place in 6th century Mecca, Majidi and his team recreated the city to what it would have been 1400 years ago.” Wikipedia
Filming locations inside Mecca
1 place inside Mecca, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Mecca too.
Filming locations nearby
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Mecca?
2 productions are recorded as filmed in Mecca, including Malcolm X (1992) and Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Mecca?
Malcolm X (1992), covered by 37 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Mecca?
Mecca is in Saudi Arabia, at 21.4225, 39.8261.
What other filming locations are near Mecca?
Al-Masjid Al-Haram, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Saudipics.com, CC BY-SA 4.0.