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The mosque is among the earliest mosques in Medina and was built by Sawad ibn Ghanam ibn Ka'ab al-Ansari in the Islamic year 2 AH, [1] and the name of the mosque goes back to the lifetime of Muhammad, when his companions named it after an event that took place on the 15th of Sha'baan the same year, when Muhammad received revelation from Allah instructing him to take the Kaaba as the qibla ...
'Mosque of the two Qiblas'; Arabic: مَـسْـجِـد الْـقِـبْـلَـتَـيْـن) is a mosque in Zeila, situated in the western Awdal region of Somaliland. The name of the mosque reflects the belief that it was once aligned to both Mecca and Jerusalem. [1] [2]
The qibla is the direction of the Kaaba, a cube-like building at the centre of the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca, in the Hijaz region of Saudi Arabia. Other than its role as qibla, it is also the holiest site for Muslims, also known as the House of God (Bayt Allah) and where the tawaf (the circumambulation ritual) is performed during the Hajj and umrah pilgrimages.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is sacred because the "first of the two qiblas" (Arabic: اولى القبلتين) was Jerusalem. [9] [10] In Islamic tradition, Al-Aqsa is said to be the "second mosque" (Arabic: ثاني المسجدين), as well as the "third of the holy sanctuaries" (Arabic: ثالث الحرمين), under Islamic Law. [11]
Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil Abd al-Rahman al-Qari was the Imam of the mosque of the two Qiblas in Medina and the formerly appointed Imam of the Prophet’s Mosque. He is the son of Khalil Al-Qari. [1] Mahmoud Khalil Al-Qari was born and raised in Medina. He memorized the Qur’an from his father Khalil Al-Qari, when he was ten years old. He also ...
Quba Mosque and Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Mosque of the Prophet) ... 623 CE - Masjid al-Qiblatayn (Mosque of the two Qiblas) built. 624 CE - Prophet's House built. [1] 627
Among its archaeological landmarks are approximately 300 mosques, the most important being the mosque of the companion Mazin bin Gadoobah, the mosque of the two Qiblas (Masjid Al-Qiblatayn), and the "Al-Fajj Mosque."
In exceptional cases, the mihrab does not follow the qibla direction, such as is the Masjid al-Qiblatayn, or the Mosque of the Two Qiblas, where Muhammad received the command to change the direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca, thus it had two prayer niches. In 1987 the mosque was renovated, the old prayer niche facing Jerusalem was ...