section_path: Etymology/Bakkah
section_name: Bakkah
paragraph_text: Bakkah
  
  The Quran refers to the city as Bakkah in Surah Al Imran (3), verse 96: "Indeed the first House, established for mankind was that at Bakkah". This is said to have been the name of the city at the time of Abraham (Ibrahim in Islamic tradition) and it is also transliterated as Baca, Baka, Bakah, Bakka, Becca and Bekka, among others. It was a name for the city in the ancient world.