The Mecca Floor

In 1988 the bucks move across the street to the newly constructed bradley center leaving the mecca arena floor in storage all but forgotten by the general public.

The mecca 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. مكة المكرمة romanized. Cellular arena for a. 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.

Our staff is highly skilled and very experienced in the flooring industry we strive to make your flooring experience easy comfortable. The world s largest pop art painting is an iconic nba court. 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. Mecca officially makkah al mukarramah arabic.

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. Fast forward 25 years bucks fan andy gorzalski discovers the floor for sale for scrap listed online as a gym floor. Purchase limited edition mecca floor memorabilia. Visits outside this month are known as minor pilgrimages or umrah which.

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. 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. Construction workers pulled apart the mecca floor. The uw milwaukee panther arena originally the milwaukee arena and formerly mecca arena and u s.

The floor was so iconic it had an espn 30 for 30 short created about it. The bucks almost perfectly replicated the mecca floor.