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The demolition or burning of Masjid al-Dirar (Arabic: مسجد الضرار), or the Mosque of Dissent, is mentioned in the Qur'an.Masjid al-Dirar was a Medinian mosque that was erected close to the Quba Mosque and which the Islamic prophet Muhammad initially approved of but subsequently had destroyed while he was returning from the Expedition to Tabouk (which occurred in October 630 CE [1]).
The construction date of the mosque, which has no inscription, is unknown. According to the sources, the construction date is stated as the 15th or 16th century. [1] The mosque, which is a single-domed building, has been repaired twice, once after the Ottoman-Russian War and once in 1993. [2]
Moreover, according to the article as it's written now, the term Masjid al-Dirar wasn't used until after its destruction. If it had an actual name, that would be worth including and should presumably cause the article to be retitled, with the non-NPOV nickname Masjid al-Dirar still pointing to it as well.
The carpet and 21 chandeliers [3] were made in Turkey. The mosque includes two prayer halls, a Qur'an center, two function halls, a media center and housing for the imam, the muadhin, cleaners and workers. It can accommodate 2000 worshippers in the prayer halls and in the porticos.
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, so it had two prayer niches. When the mosque was renovated in 1987, the old prayer niche facing Jerusalem was ...
The Al Darah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الدارة) is considered one of the oldest mosques in the Bilad Al Qadeem, Manama, Bahrain. [1] It is located east of the village in an earlier settlement and was founded by Shiite cleric Sheikh Ali Al-Baladi Al-Bahrani, buried in Abu Anbara Cemetery. The inscription marks it as built in 1741. [2]
The Fatih Mosque (Turkish: Fatih Camii, "Conqueror's Mosque" in English) is an Ottoman mosque off Fevzi Paşa Caddesi in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. The original mosque was constructed between 1463 and 1470 on the site of the Church of the Holy Apostles .
It can hold up to 63,000 worshippers at a time (can accommodate up to 100,000 people in case of an earthquake). [2] The cost of the mosque was US$110 million (approx. 550 million Turkish liras at the time). Planning for the Çamlıca Mosque began in the year 2000 and was led by two female architects, Bahar Mızrak and Hayriye Gül Totu. [2]