Placing a model resembling the Ka'bah in schools to teach tawaf

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there is a school in the primary schools that places a model resembling the Ka'bah and has the female students perform tawaf around it for the sake of education.

Answer:
This is prohibited. A decision was issued by the Council of Senior Scholars that the Ka'bah is not to be depicted, because this misleads people. They may think they have performed Hajj based on this image and not go or come for Hajj, saying, "The image of the Ka'bah we have is sufficient." This is an action that the Salaf of the Ummah and its imams did not practice; rather, it is an innovation. Therefore, this playfulness is not permissible. Education does not require depicting the Ka'bah. They are taught the rituals without the Ka'bah and without an image. The rituals are written, they read them, and they are explained to them, and this is sufficient. Yes.