The Anbariya Mosque ( ar, مسجد العنبرية, Masjid al-‘Anbarīyah; tr, Amberiye Mescidi), also known as the Hamidiye Mosque, is a mosque built by the Ottoman Turks in

Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...

, which is nowadays part of

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

. It is named after the Anbariya Gate, next to which the mosque was located. Built in 1908 by the Ottoman Sultan

Abdülhamid II Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...

, The Anbariya Mosque was a part of the Hejaz Railway project next to al-Muazzim Railway Station, which houses the

Hejaz Railway Museum The Hejaz Railway Museum (Arabic: متحف سكة الحجاز) in Medina is a railway museum that was opened in 2006. It is on the grounds of the restored historic Ottoman railway station at Medina, locally called استسيون "Istasyōn" (), ...

External links

Ümre Bilgileri
from Turkey Ottoman mosques Mosques completed in 1908 Mosques in Medina 1908 establishments in the Ottoman Empire {{SaudiArabia-mosque-stub

See also

External links