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There are 114,000 mosques in Egypt as of 2016, of which 83,000 are affiliated with the Ministry of Endowments. [1] This list includes notable mosques within Egypt.
The al-Hussein Mosque [1] [2] or al-Husayn Mosque, [3] [4] also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn [4] (Arabic: مسجد الإمام ٱلحُسين) and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, [5] [6] is a mosque and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874. [7]
Aṣ-ṣaḥābah (Arabic: اَلصَّحَابَةُ, "The Companions") were the Muslim companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who had seen or met him, believed in him at the time when he was alive and they also died as Muslims.
The Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif. Muhammad Jaunpuri shrine, Farah, Farah Province; Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine, Herat, Herat Province; Shrine of Ali Karam Allah Wajho ("the Blue Mosque"), Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province; Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa shrine, Balkh, Balkh Province; Baba Hatim Ziyarat, Imam Sahib, Kunduz Province
The As-Sahabah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الصحابة) is a Sunni Islam mosque and adjacent cemetery, located at the Maydan Al-Sahaba Square in the city of Derna, Libya. [1] [2] The mosque was built in the 1970s on the site of a 7th-century cemetery containing the graves of the Sahaba who were slain by the Byzantine armies during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. [2]
Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar or Mosque-Sabil-Kuttab of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar (Arabic: مسجد وسبيل سليمان أغا السلحدار) is a complex of mosque, sabil and kuttab established during the era of Muhammad Ali Pasha in Islamic Cairo, the historic medieval district of Cairo, Egypt.
The major source of information about the Muslim conquest of Egypt and the province's early Arab military generations, Ibn Abd al-Hakam (d. 871), [138] commends Amr for his leadership of the Egyptian conquest and as the upholder of the interests of Egypt's troops and their families against the central authorities in Medina and later Damascus. [137]
The term sahaba means "companions" and derives from the verb صَحِبَ meaning "accompany", "keep company with", "associate with". "Al-ṣaḥāba" is definite plural; the indefinite singular is masculine صَحَابِيٌّ ( ṣaḥābiyy ), feminine صَحَابِيَّةٌ ( ṣaḥābiyyah ).