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{{Short description|Mosque in Massawa, Northern Red Sea, Eritrea}}

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()| native_name_lang = ar| image = Al Sahaba Mosque, Massawa.jpg| image_upright = | alt = | caption = | map_type = Eritrea#Africa| map_size = 225px| map_alt = | map_relief = yes| map_caption = 15433950type:landmark_region:ER|display=inline}}| coordinates_footnotes = | religious_affiliation = Islam| locale = | location = Massawa, EritreaGod in Islam>God| rite = | sect = | tradition = | festival = | cercle = | sector = | administration = | consecration_year = | organisational_status = | functional_status = | heritage_designation = | ownership = | governing_body = | leadership = | bhattaraka = | patron = | religious_features_label = | religious_features = | architect = Mosque>Masjid| architecture_style = Companions of the Prophet>Companions of Muhammad| creator = | funded_by = | general_contractor = | established = 620s or 630s| groundbreaking = | year_completed = | construction_cost = | date_demolished = | facade_direction = | capacity = | length = | width = | width_nave = | interior_area = | height_max = | dome_quantity = 1| dome_height_outer = | dome_height_inner = | dome_dia_outer = | dome_dia_inner = | minaret_quantity = 1| minaret_height = | spire_quantity = | spire_height = | site_area = | temple_quantity = | monument_quantity = | shrine_quantity = | inscriptions = | materials = | elevation_m = | elevation_footnotes = | nrhp = | designated = | added = | refnum = | footnotes = | website = }}The Mosque of the Companions (|Masjid aṣ-Ṣaḥābah}}){{Citation needed|date=December 2023|reason=No reliable and independent sources cited in this article actually name the mosque. See talk page for discussion.}} is a mosque in the city of Massawa, Eritrea. Possibly dating to the early 7th century C.E., it is believed by some to be the first mosque built in Africa.BOOK, Reid, Richard J.,weblink A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present, John Wiley & Sons, 2012, 978-0-470-65898-7, 106, en,

History

{{See also|Migration to Abyssinia}}The mosque was reportedly built by companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who travelled to Africa to flee persecution by people in the Hejazi city of Mecca, present-day Saudi Arabia. According to Richard J. Reid, it may have been constructed in the 620s or 630s by members of Muhammad's family. The mosque of Quba, which is the first mosque built by Muhammad, in what is now Medina, dates to around the same time.BOOK, Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Goss, V. P., Bornstein, C. V., The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 21, 208, 0918720583,weblink 1986, NEWS, Mustafa Abu Sway, The Holy Land, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Qur'an, Sunnah and other Islamic Literary Source, Central Conference of American Rabbis,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110728001911weblink">weblink 2011-07-28, BOOK, Dyrness, W. A., Senses of Devotion: Interfaith Aesthetics in Buddhist and Muslim Communities, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 7, 25, 978-1620321362,weblink 2013-05-29, JOURNAL, The Domes: El Wakil's Traditionalist Architecture of Quba Mosque, A. A., Macca, T., Aryanti, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Volume 180, 1st Annual Applied Science and Engineering Conference (AASEC), The International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE), 16–18 November 2016, Bandung, Indonesia, 10.1088/1757-899X/180/1/012092, free, The current structure is of much later construction, as some features, like the mihrab (late 7th century) and the minaret (9th century), did not develop until later in Islamic architecture.WEB, as-Sahaba Mosque,weblink Madain Project, 2 April 2019, {{Unreliable source?|date=December 2023|certain=y|reason=This statement is correct overall, but the cited source is a non-scholarly website that sometimes borrows information from Wikipedia.}}

See also

• List of mosques
  • Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca
  • List of mosques in Africa
    • Al Nejashi Mosque, Ethiopia
  • Lists of mosques

References

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External links

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