El-Abbasi Mosque
mosque in Rosetta, Egypt
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Overview
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El-Abbasi Mosque stands in Rosetta (Rashid), in Egypt's Beheira Governorate, close to the banks of the Nile. The building serves both as a mosque and as a mausoleum, and it takes its name from Sayyid Mohammed Al-Abbasi, whose tomb is located inside. It is found on Al Sekat Al Gadida Street. Arabic sources also remember it as one of the mosques from which the calls of Rosetta's fighters rose, the local defenders who defeated the Fraser campaign.
History
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The available sources do not give a founding date or patron for the mosque. The Arabic Wikipedia article places it among the sites from which the local fighters of Rosetta rallied during their resistance to the Fraser campaign, which they defeated.
From Wikipedia
Al-Abbasi Mosque (Arabic: المسجد العباسي, romanized: ālmsǧd ālʿbāsy is a mosque and mausoleum located in Rosetta, in the Beheira Governorate of Egypt, that lies near the banks of the Nile. The mosque is named after Sayyid Mohammed Al-Abbasi, whose tomb is located inside the mosque.
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