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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]
The Algeria Square Mosque, or Jamal Abdul Nasser Mosque (Arabic: جامع جمال عبد الناصر), is a mosque located on Algeria/Elgazayer Square (Maidan al Jazair/Maydan elgazayer) in the city centre of Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
View of the mosque's hypostyle interior. The mosque's layout is somewhat irregular, suggesting multiple modifications throughout its history. [3] The floor plan is roughly rectangular: the southeast wall (corresponding to the qibla or direction of prayer) is 44.24 m (145.1 ft) long, the northeast wall is 19.35 m (63.5 ft) long, the southwest wall is approximately 20.3 m (67 ft) long, and the ...
Mosque of Ahmad al-Qaramanli in Tripoli (1736–1738). The Ottomans conquered Tripoli in 1551 and made it the capital of a province roughly corresponding to modern-day Libya. . The first Ottoman governor, known as Dragut or Darghut (d. 1565), repaired and redeveloped the city's fortifications, giving the old city the roughly pentagonal shape it has tod
The Sidi Darghut Mosque (Arabic: جامع درغوت باشا), also known as the Jama Sidi Darghut, is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Tripoli, Libya. It was built in approximately 1560 CE by Dragut on the site of a Hospitaller church, parts of which were incorporated into the mosque.
The Gurgi Mosque (Arabic: جامع قرجي) is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Tripoli, Libya. The mosque lies in the heart of old Tripoli (the Medina ) as part of a complex of historic buildings. The mosque is an important tourist attraction, as is the area as a whole; nearby is the Roman Arch of Marcus Aurelius .
The Atiq Mosque (Arabic: المسجد العتيق, lit. 'old mosque') is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in the oasis village of Awjila, in the Sahara desert of the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya. The mosque is located in the old city area of Awjila. [1] It dates from the 12th century and has unusual conical domes made of mudbrick and ...
The Atiq Mosque (Arabic: المسجد العتيق, romanized: Al Masjid al ‘Aţīq), also known as Al-Jami al-Kabir (the Great Mosque), is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Benghazi, Libya. It is one of the oldest and best known in the city. The mosque forms the north side of Freedom Square.