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White mosque

Also known as: White mosque

mosque in Ramla, Israel

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Built
1268
Architect
Ömer b. Abdülaziz
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The White Mosque (Arabic: المسجد الأبيض, romanized: al-Masjid al-Abyad; Hebrew: המסגד הלבן, romanized: HaMisgad HaLavan) was an Umayyad-era mosque, now in partial ruins, located in Ramle, in central Israel. Only its minaret is still standing. According to local Islamic tradition, the northwestern section of the mosque contained the shrine of an Islamic prophet, Salih.

The minaret is also known as the Tower of the Forty Martyrs. Islamic tradition dating from 1467 CE claims that forty companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad were buried at the mosque, which influenced an erroneous Western Christian tradition from the 16th century that the White Mosque was originally a church dedicated to the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.

In 2000, the mosque site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.

Source: Wikipedia, article “White Mosque of Ramle”; quoted unchanged under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Read more on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0

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