{"id":47824,"date":"2021-11-16T11:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/?p=33971"},"modified":"2021-11-21T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T09:04:15","slug":"the-internet-is-loving-this-stunning-visual-of-madinah-from-space-shot-by-a-russian-cosmonaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/neom\/en\/latest\/the-internet-is-loving-this-stunning-visual-of-madinah-from-space-shot-by-a-russian-cosmonaut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Is Loving This Stunning Visual Of Madinah From Space Shot By A Russian Cosmonaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current Commander of the International Space Station, Russian Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, regularly posts photos of places around the earth from up in space. He recently posted a photo of Madinah and it\u2019s breathtaking.<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re wondering what cosmonauts are then let us tell you that they are the same as astronauts but Russians like to use cosmonauts so we\u2019ll be using cosmonaut to describe Shkaplerov. He uses cosmonaut on his bio by the way.<\/p>\n

Returning to the shot, the Prophet’s Mosque is seen in the middle, almost functioning as a nucleus around which Madinah was built and extended.<\/h2>\n
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#Medina<\/a> is the second most important sacred city in the Muslim world. It is located in the western part of #SaudiArabia<\/a> and is only 150 km from the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Medina is a very unusual and probably one of the oldest places on Earth that has been living uninterruptedly for centuries pic.twitter.com\/WVQXbQ7Pk6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Anton Shkaplerov (@Anton_Astrey) November 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n