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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 ...
According to local tradition, Muhammad's family migrated to Abyssinia in the early seventh century and constructed the mosque thereafter. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] At present, scholarly dates for the Islamicization of the region are uncertain and may be as late as the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, though others suggest a possibly earlier ...
The Quba Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد قُبَاء, romanized: Masjid Qubāʾ, standard pronunciation: [mas.dʒid qu.baːʔ], Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [mas.dʒɪd ɡʊ.ba]) is a mosque located in Medina, in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, first built in the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 7th century C.E. [1] [2] [3] It is thought to be the first mosque in the world ...
Like the Qarawiyyin Mosque, there are doubts about the story of its foundation. The oldest parts of the present building date from the 10th century. [44] It was mostly reconstructed by the Almohads between 1203 and 1207. [48] Al-Naqah Mosque: Tripoli Libya: 973 Oldest Islamic monument in Tripoli, [49] though its history is not well-known. [50]
1021–1036) had the mosque reconstructed between 1034 and 1036, though work was not completed until 1065, during the reign of Caliph al-Mustansir (r. 1036–1094). [57] The new mosque was considerably smaller, reduced from fifteen aisles to seven, [57] probably a reflection of the local population's significant decline by this time.
The Great Mosque of Damascus was started by al-Walid in 706. [21] It was built as a hypostyle mosque, built with a prayer hall leading to the mihrab, "on the back wall of the sanctuary are four mihrabs, two of which are the mihrab of the Companions of the Prophet in the eastern half and the great mihrab at the end of the transept". [21]
During the construction of the Prophet’s Mosque on the site he purchased from two orphan children after his migration from Mecca to Medina, As'ad ibn Zurarah, one of Muhammad's companions, died. Muhammad chose the spot to be a cemetery, and As'ad was the first individual to be buried in al-Baqi' among the Ansar .
The design and reconstruction of the Quba Mosque built on the site where the very first mosque in Islam was erected. The design and reconstruction of the Qiblatain Mosque said to have been the mosque where the worshipers first changed the direction of their prayers from Jerusalem towards Mecca according to divine revelation.