The direction to face from any location in the world is not a trivial problem. One cannot just draw a straight line on a Mercator map of the world joining one’s location to Mecca and measure the angle because the world is a sphere, not a flat plane.

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THE BEARING OF MECCA

Muslims offer their five times daily prayer (Swalat) facing Kaa'ba which is known as Qibla (the direction of Kaa'ba / Baitullah)