The Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque ( ar, مسجد السلطان إبراهيم بن أدهم) is the largest
mosque in the
Palestinian town of
Beit Hanina, located northeast of
Jerusalem. It is named after a
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
man who lived in the town and worked as collector of olive products. An engraving in a stone in front of the mosque reads, "this mosque was built by Suwaid Abul Hamayel in the year 336 after
Hijrah". The area of the mosque was expanded in 1938 by the residents of Beit Hanina. In 1993, a boys primary school was built alongside the mosque.
Sultan
Ibrahim Ibn Adham was a famous saint "who renounced a Kingdom and consecrated himself to God" and buried in
Jabala Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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Google Books
"Travels In Asia And Africa, 1325-54" By Battuta Ibn, Ibn Batuta Translated by Sir Hamilton Gibb Published 1996 p. 62
References
Further reading
*Sharon, Moshe (1997):
Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae
' (Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque
94
ff.)
Mosques in the West Bank
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