The Mosque of Abu Bakr al-'Aydarus or Aidrus Mosque () is a

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mosque in Aidrus Street in

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. One of the principal mosques in Aden, it is named after

Abu Bakr al-Aydarus Abu Bakr al-ʿAydarūs, also known as Sayyid Abū Bakr al- ʿAdanī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAydarūs (; 1447–1508J. Spencer Trimingham, John O. Voll, ''The Sufi Orders in Islam'', pg 73) was a Hadhrami religious scholar of Sufism and a poet w ...

, the ''

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'' (saint) of Aden. Originally built in the late-15th or early-16th century, the mosque underwent rebuilding after being destroyed in 1859. During the

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, Islamic fundamentalists from

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damaged much of the mosque, burning copies of the

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and vandalizing tombs in its courtyard. The mosque is featured on some Aden postage stamps, e.g. the 1938 2 anna stamp.Stanley Gibbons Ltd. ''Stanley Gibbons' Simplified Stamp Catalogue''; 24th ed., 1959. London: Stanley Gibbons Ltd.' p. 1

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