The Mecca Floor

In the 1970s the rust belt city of milwaukee used public funds to commission an eccentric openly gay artist from the bowery in new york city to paint the bucks basketball floor.

The mecca floor.

Purchase limited edition mecca floor memorabilia. Mecca officially makkah al mukarramah arabic. The world s largest pop art painting is an iconic nba court. Visits outside this month are known as minor pilgrimages or umrah which.

Cellular arena is an indoor arena located in milwaukee wisconsin the arena which seats as many as 12 700 people and offers 41 700 square feet 3 874 m 2 of floor space is part of a larger downtown campus that includes the milwaukee theatre and wisconsin center. Our staff is highly skilled and very experienced in the flooring industry we strive to make your flooring experience easy comfortable. Construction workers pulled apart the mecca floor. Fast forward 25 years bucks fan andy gorzalski discovers the floor for sale for scrap listed online as a gym floor.

Makkah the noble and commonly shortened to makkah is the holiest city in islam and the capital of the makkah province of saudi arabia. The bucks almost perfectly replicated the mecca floor. The uw milwaukee panther arena originally the milwaukee arena and formerly mecca arena and u s. The pilgrimage to mecca known as the hajj is one of the five pillars of sunni islam and one of the ten branches of religion in shi a islam and thus obligatory for all muslims with the physical and financial ability to make it over three million muslims visit the city during the month of dhu l hijjah yearly.

Welcome to floors mecca flooring store near katy and richmond texas here at floors mecca we provide high quality services at reasonable prices. The floor was so iconic it had an espn 30 for 30 short created about it. Amid skepticism and controversy the mecca floor became a beacon of light for milwaukee to illuminate itself as a forward thinking and art conscious city while ushering in a golden age of basketball dominance. Robert indiana s mecca floor a huge pop art painting that once served as the basketball floor for the milwaukee bucks and marquette university has been reassembled in the u s.

مكة المكرمة romanized. The city is 70 km 43 mi inland from jeddah on the red sea in a narrow valley 277 m 909 ft above sea level.