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The metaverse is opening up the world’s holiest sites to virtual pilgrims
Faith-based virtual reality spaces are allowing users to pilgrimage to and explore some of the holiest cities, experience rituals, pray and worship in the metaverse. In 2015, the chief executive of the digital agency, Ehab Fares, created some of Islam's most sacred sites including Mecca in a metaverse they named Experience Makkah. The Holy City, also invented in 2015, allows pilgrims to follow Orthodox clerics as they emerge from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Holy Fire ceremony, let them tuck a prayer note into a crack of the Western Wall, or follow the steps of thousands of worshippers during Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
