“And from where you go out, then turn your face towards the Inviolable Mosque, and wherever you are, then turn your faces towards it, lest that mankind should have an argument against you, excepting (the ones of) them that do injustice. So do not be apprehensive of them, and be apprehensive of Me, and that I may perfect My favor on you and that possibly you would be guided”.
Al Baqarah 2:150
Wikipedia:
The qibla (Arabic: قِبْلَة, romanized: qiblah, lit. 'direction') is the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, which is used by Muslims in various religious contexts, particularly the direction of prayer for the salah. In Islam the Kaaba is believed to be a sacred site built by the prophets Abraham and Ishmael, and that its use as the qibla was ordained by God in several verses of the Quran revealed to Muhammad in the second Hijri year. Prior to this revelation, Muhammad and his followers in Medina faced Jerusalem for prayers. Most mosques contain a mihrab (a wall niche) that indicates the direction of the qibla.
Qiblah, also spelled qibla or kiblah, the direction of the sacred shrine of the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, toward which Muslims turn five times each day when performing the salat (daily ritual prayer).
The qiblah is used not only for prayer but also for burial; the dead, including slaughtered animals, are interred facing Mecca. In a mosque the qiblah is indicated by the mihrab, a niche in the building’s interior wall facing Mecca.
Architecture is closely tied to religion, even in our modern age (De Wildt et al. 2019). For thousands of years, faithful Sunni Muslims have dutifully prayed toward the holy city of Mecca five times a day (Shia, three times a day). Ilci et al. (2018) have reported that “Facing towards the qibla … is one of the six conditions or requisites of the prayer for being valid. In other words, if a person does not turn his/her face to the qibla direction within an acceptable declination, his/her prayer is invalid according to scholarly consensus” (p. 1642).How Accurately Could Early (622-900 C.E.) Muslims Determine the Direction of Prayers (Qibla)? by Walter R. Schumm, 25.Feb 2020
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/3/102/htm
This is what we find in reality:
Line from Mecca to Mosque in Cordoba
The enigmatic orientation of the Great Mosque of Córdoba, David A. King
I find this to be weird brain contortionism.
Line from 2 Samarkand mosques to Mecca
SAMARQAND: The legal scholar Abu ‘l-Yusr al-Bazdawî (d. 1089) reported these qiblas as being used for mosque orientation in Samarqand: 270°, due west, used by the Hanafite school of law and corresponding to the direction in which the road to Makka left the city; 240°, winter sunset, as used for the Great Mosque; 230°, a value underlying a table for the altitude of the sun in the azimuth of the qibla, presented by al-Bazdawî but lifted from some earlier source; 225°, south-west, a compromise between the Hanafite and Shâfi’ite qiblas; and 180°, due south, used by the Shâf’iite legal school, intended to correspond to the qibla of the Prophet in Medina.”
Line from Baghdad Haydar Khana mosque
Line from Baghdad Historic Marjan Mosque - Al-Rashed St, Baghdad, Iraq
After the death of Murjan in 1353, he was buried in the madrasa and the dome was erected on top of his tomb. However, the madrasa and dome were later demolished in 1946 to expand the Al Rasheed Street.
Line from Mecca to the Al-Khulafa Mosque - Oldest existing mosque in Baghdad, although renovated for numerous times. The minaret dates back to the Abbasid era.
None of these mosques are directed towards Mecca.
They don't point towards Mecca.
They are not aligned with Mecca.
They don't face Mecca.
The Qiblah is not in the direction of Mecca.
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