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An-Nukhailah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد النخيلة) is an historic Twelver Shi'i mosque in the town of al Kifl, Iraq. The mosque is a large complex built over a former Jewish site. The mosque is a large complex built over a former Jewish site.
Al Kifl (Arabic: الكفل; also known as Kifl) is a town in southeastern Iraq on the Euphrates River, between Najaf and Al Hillah. The population in and near the town is about 15,000. Kifl is the location of Al-Nukhailah Mosque, containing the tomb of Dhu al-Kifl who is believed to be the biblical prophet Ezekiel.
Reportedly in the Al-Nukhailah Mosque, Al-Kifl, Iraq: Exact location unknown. According to Jewish tradition, Baruch's tomb is located about 1-mile (1.6 km) away from Ezekiel's Tomb near a town called "Mashhad Ali" which there is no record of ever existing. However, there is a tomb within the Al-Nukhailah Mosque in Al-Kifl dedicated to Baruch.
Some Hebrew-language Jewish inscriptions from the tomb chamber were removed and replaced with Quranic verses. The large new Al-Nukhailah Mosque currently encompasses the tomb structure, [12] with Muslims believing the tomb to be that of the unknown Islamic prophet Dhul-Kifl, who is often identified with Ezekiel. [3]
Al-Nukhailah Mosque: Al Kifl: 1309 Sh Contains Dhu'l Kifl Shrine, which houses the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel. Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque: Sinjar: 1239 Sh Contains a shrine dedicated to a daughter of Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin. Great Mosque of al-Nuri: Mosul: 1172-1173 Su The minaret was destroyed in 2017 during the Battle of Mosul. Mosque of ...
The mosque has five gates: Gate of the Threshold (Bāb al-Sudda), Gate of Kinda (Bāb Kinda), Gate of al-Anmat (Bāb al-Anmāṭ), Gate of Hani ibn Urwa, and the Gate of the Snake (Bāb al-Thu‘bān) or Gate of the Elephant (Bāb al-Fīl). [14] [10] The historic mosque structure has similarities to the design of the palaces of pre-Islamic ...
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The complex was built near the Bāb Ash-Sheikh (Arabic: بَاب ٱلشَّيْخ, romanized: The Sheikh's Gate) in Al-Rusafah, on the east bank of the Tigris. [1] [3] [4] Al-Rusafah also contains the mosque of the founder of the Hanbali school of thought, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. [5] [6]