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Sayed al Hashim Mosque

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Affiliation
  
Status
  
Active

Completed
  
1850

Architectural type
  
Province
  
Gaza Strip

District
  
Region
  
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Location
  
al-Wehda Street, Gaza, Gaza Strip

Architectural styles
  
Ottoman architecture, Mamluk architecture

Similar
  
Qasr al‑Basha, Great Mosque of Gaza, Katib al‑Wilaya Mosque, Church of Saint Porphyrius, Gaza synagogue

The Sayed al-Hashim Mosque (Arabic: مسجد السيد هاشم‎‎ Masjid as-Sayed Hāshim) is one of the largest and oldest mosques in Gaza, located in the ad-Darrāj Quarter of the Old City, off of al-Wehda Street. The tomb of Hashim ibn Abd al-Manaf, Muhammad's great grandfather who died in Gaza during a trading voyage, is located under the dome of the mosque according to Muslim tradition.

A mosque and hostel have been located at the present site since at least the 12th century CE. The mosque had a madrasa and was a center for religious learning in the 19th and parts of the 20th-century. The mosque was named after Hashim. The Sayed al-Hashim Mosque was frequented by visiting traders from Egypt, Arabia and Morocco.

The existing mosque was built in 1850, on the orders of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Majid. Some of the older materials used in the mosque’s construction were taken from the mosques and other buildings destroyed by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops. The original Ottoman minaret was rebuilt in 1903 and the north and west aisles were also built during the same period. The mausoleum of Hashim is located in the north-western corner of the mosque.

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Sayed al-Hashim Mosque Wikipedia


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