text: what is the importance to people who journey to makkah or mecca?   almost every body have answered you correctly, that this one of islam pillars, and if fulfilled all your sins are “erased”. but i would also like to tell you a little about kabba and makkah. muslims believe that the kaaba in makkah is the first house of god built on earth, it was built by abraham (pbuh) and his eldest son ishmael (pbuh), it was built in the place where abraham (pbuh) left his wife hager with her son ishmael (pbuh) and god promised abraham to make this place “destination for people”.