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The mosque was constructed with traditional Islamic architectural style and consists of a 55-foot high minaret. It was designed by Rich Olaya of Olaya Studio. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The building consists of 3 floors and it covers an area of 21,400 square feet.
The purported tomb of Khalid within the Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque Khalid's eldest son was named Sulayman, hence his kunya (' paedonymic ') Abu Sulayman ('father of Sulayman'). [ 186 ] Khalid was married to Asma, a daughter of Anas ibn Mudrik, a prominent chieftain and poet of the Khath'am tribe. [ 187 ]
The courtyard of the mosque displays Mamluk architectural style. The mosque is located in the Khaldiya district of Homs, [1] the third largest city in Syria. It is situated in a park alongside Hama Street about 500 metres (1,600 ft) north of Shoukri al-Quwatli Street, 400 metres (1,300 ft) southwest of the National Hospital, and 300 metres (980 ft) from the souk at ash-Shouhada Square.
Mosque destroyed by an Israeli bombing in Khan Younis On 19 October 2023, an Israeli airstrike hit the Church of Saint Porphyrius , where 500 people were sheltering. [ 4 ] On 8 November 2023, Israel bombed and destroyed the Khalid bin al-Walid Mosque. [ 5 ]
The mosque has two entrances for men and women respectively, leading to ablution rooms on the first floor. Stairways for each gender lead to the second floor prayer room, which can hold roughly 150 people. Above the rear half of the prayer room is a dome situated over the women's section.
Khalid ordered his army to chase the fleeing Byzantines. After a search, the Muslim prisoners were found and freed. [6] One of the Rashidun army commanders, Shurahbil ibn Hassana, is reported to have said about her that: This warrior fights like Khalid ibn Walid, but I am sure he is not Khalid.
Abd al-Rahman's son Khalid was a commander of a naval campaign against the Byzantines in 668 or 669. [13] [14] The line of Khalid ibn al-Walid died out with the deaths of Abd al-Rahman's roughly forty male descendants as a result of a plague in Syria toward the end of the Umayyad period (661–750). [7]
Arab Muslim historian Ibn al-Kalbī (c. 737–819 CE) tells how Muhammad ordered Khālid ibn al-Walīd to kill the pre-Islamic Arabian goddess al-ʿUzzā, who was supposed to inhabit one of three trees: Khalid destroyed the first one, returned to Muhammad to report. Muhammad replied, asking whether something eventful happened, which Khalid denied.