Sadat Quraish Mosque
| Sadat Quraish Mosque مسجد سادات قريش | |
|---|---|
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Islam |
| Status | Active |
| Location | |
| Location | Bilbeis, Egypt |
  Shown within Egypt | |
| Geographic coordinates | 30°25′06″N 31°33′48″E / 30.41839406619869°N 31.563449786215187°E |
| Architecture | |
| Type | mosque |
| Style | Islamic |
| Completed | 18 AH 639 CE |
The Sadat Quraish Mosque (
Naming
It was named Sadat Quraish or the Lords of the
History
Some historians have claimed that the mosque was founded during the
After the Battle of Karbala, Sayyidah Zaynab, the daughter of Ali, is said to have received a vision in Medina that the Messenger of God ordered them to take the Ahl al-Bayt (family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) to Egypt. They were welcomed by the people of Bilbeis and stayed in the mosque for a month.[4]
The
The Sadat Quraish mosque is registered among the Islamic antiquities in the Ministerial Decree No. 10357 of the year 1951. It has been encroached upon by later buildings around it. Its minaret is missing its top, as it was dismantled in the 1970s due to fears of collapse.[5]
Design
The rectangular mosque contains 18 marble columns in three rows and is divided into four arches parallel to the qibla walls, and the crowns of the columns are of different shapes denoting their origin from different Ancient Egyptian and Roman temples, and the square area of the mosque is about three thousand square meters. The mosque was renovated in the Ottoman era by the Emir of Egypt, Al-Kashif, who built the minaret.[6]
References
- ^ a b "سادات قريش .. أول مسجد في مصر وأفريقيا" ["Sadat Quraish"... the first mosque in Egypt and Africa]. Aledtihad. صحيفة الاتحاد. 7 June 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021.
- ^ الجريتلي, محمد (24 June 2021). "مساجد تاريخية سادات قريش ببلبيس .. مسجد أقيم لتكريم الشهداء". بوابة أخبار اليوم الإلكترونية. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021.
- ^ العراقي, ريهام (22 July 2010). "سادات قريش أول مسجد أنشئ فى مصر.. وليس جامع عمرو بن العاص" ["Sadat Quraysh" was the first mosque established in Egypt... and not the Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque]. Al-Masry al-Youm. المصري اليوم. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018.
- ^ عزالدين, محمد (15 April 2021). "علي جمعة: أهل بلبيس استقبلوا السيدة زينب عند دخولها مصر بالبكاء" [Ali Gomaa: The people of Belbeis welcomed Mrs. Zeinab when she entered Egypt with tears]. الوطن (in Arabic).
- ^ a b عبد الخالق, اسلام (26 December 2019). "سادات قريش..... أقدم مسجد في إفريقيا لم يبقى منه سوى "أطلال" مئذنته" [Sadat Quraysh...the oldest mosque in Africa, of which only the "ruins" of its minaret remain]. elmeezan.com. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020.
- ^ "سادات قريش..... أقدم مسجد في إفريقيا لم يبقى منه سوى "أطلال" مئذنته". 28 November 2020. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020.