Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque
The Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya mosque ( Arabic مسجد رابعة العدوية, DMG masǧid rābiʿa al-ʿadawiyya ), also known as the Mosque of Rabaa El-Adaweya after the Egyptian-Arabic pronunciation , is located on the northern edge of the Cairo district of Nasr City . It was named after the saint Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya , a Sufi mystic of the 8th century. The place became the scene of the massacre named after him in 2013.
location
The Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque is located in Nasr-City ( Nasr in English "Victory"), a district to the east of Cairo, which, as a checkerboard-like satellite city with wide streets, has the largest concentration of military facilities and subsidized housing for members of the military in Cairo, including (as of 2007) the Ministry of Defense, the Army Headquarters, the military academy, the headquarters of the secret police, various officers' clubs, companies in the military-industrial complex and several hotels owned by the military. The grave of Anwar Sadat and the pyramid arch of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, built on the occasion of the losses in the Yom Kippur War, are located on Nasr Street . In Nasr-City, along with the headquarters of the Egyptian secret service, there are also the notorious underground prisons, where the Muslim Brotherhood suspected many of their supporters to be in custody after the coup on July 3, 2013 .
The Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque itself stands in the middle of the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Square, which is named after it, and is surrounded by residential and government buildings, including a military base in the northeast quadrant of the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Square, the road traffic department building of the Ministry of Interior in the eastern part of Nasr Street and a building of the Ministry of Defense on the southwest corner of Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Square.
The square, and thus the mosque, is located at the intersection of Nasrstrasse, a main artery connecting the city center with Cairo's international airport, with Tayaranstrasse.
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The funeral service of President Anwar Sadat , who was killed by an attack by radical Islamist officers on a military parade on broad Nasr Street in 1981, took place in the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque .
In 2004, the funeral service for Ma'mun al-Hudaybi Banna , head of the Muslim Brotherhood , took place in the Rābi Ta -al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque in front of 25,000 mourners.
Since the end of June 2013, the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Square with the mosque has been the most important parade ground for the Muslim Brotherhood. In the run-up to the military coup on July 3, 2013, led by the later Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi against the first freely elected Egyptian government of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Morsi , a meeting of the Islamic Alliance , a coalition of Islamist political parties led by Freedom - and Justice Party (FJP) announced a sit-in at the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque, which was a traditional gathering place for Morsi supporters. “Open-ended demonstrations” with the official participation of the FJP began on June 28 under the title “Legitimacy is a Red Line”, while demonstrations against Morsi and his politics started in Tahrir Square . Islamist figures and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood gathered in their thousands for Friday prayers on June 28 around the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque and proclaimed the sit-in in solidarity with the elected president and his democratic legitimacy.
After the military coup of July 3, 2013, the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque, only a few kilometers away from the presidential palace, became the center of the protests with the announcement of the open-ended sit-in. Within a week, an extensive tent city formed around the mosque, in which tens of thousands of coup opponents camped for several months and demanded the return of the president who had been overthrown by the military. On July 5, 2013, when the coup leaders' security forces killed five demonstrators in an "extrajudicial mass execution," according to Human Rights Watch, Muslim Brotherhood chairman Mohammed Badie , who was believed to have been imprisoned on the basis of an allegation by the military leadership, stepped on the grounds around the Rābiʿa-al -ʿAdawiyya Mosque with a call to the people gathered there to defend the democratic process with the demonstration at the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya-Mosque until Morsi is reinstated as president. In the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque, an event hall had been converted into a media center for the demonstrators.
From the prayer room of the courtyard of the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque, the demonstrators' Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya hospital, equipped for treating wounds and performing simple operations, was operated in early August 2013, according to a doctor, 20 in Doctors working shifts provided 40 beds after doctors had set up a makeshift field hospital with six beds on the grounds of the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya mosque for the treatment of simple illnesses such as flu and heat stroke in early July. During the July 8, 2013 mass killing on the grounds of the Republican Guard in Cairo , in which, according to Human Rights Watch, coup officials opened fire on a group of peacefully demonstrating Morsi supporters and killed at least 61 demonstrators in an “extrajudicial mass execution” then over 150 killed and wounded demonstrators were brought to the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Field Hospital at the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque for treatment.
- On July 27, 2013 , security forces of the coup regime attacked a demonstration by Mursi supporters of the protest camp on Nasr Street near the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque, killing at least 95 people in an "extrajudicial mass execution" organized by Human Rights Watch designated action, which represented the "worst state-led massacre in the country since the fall of Husni Mubaraks" (Patrick Kingsley / The Guardian). This was the second massacre by the security forces of Morsi supporters within two weeks. On the same day, a local BBC reporter reported that the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque was the "epicenter of the crisis". In some cases, the mass killing of July 27 was already referred to as the “Rābiʿa massacre”, which, however, must be differentiated from the mass killing of demonstrators by the security forces , which took place two and a half weeks later and was also called the “ Rābiʿa massacre ” by international human rights organizations .
- On August 14, 2013, the security forces of the coup regime put down the mass protests and the Rābiʿa sit-in in the so-called Rābiʿa massacre - "one of the most brutal mass executions of demonstrators in recent world history" ( Human Rights Watch ), which probably killed at least 1,000 people , whereby the mosque was partially destroyed and burned out. Security forces also opened fire on facilities that had been converted into makeshift medical supplies, including the Rābiʿa Hospital, the Field Hospital and the courtyard adjacent to the Rābiʿa Mosque. The main entrance of the Rābiʿa Hospital, called "Sniper Alley" by the demonstrators, was for most of the day under sniper fire from the security forces, partially on the roofs of the surrounding buildings, and posed a serious threat to those who wanted to seek medical care. During the mass killing by security forces, the mosque's reception hall served as a makeshift hospital and morgue for dozens of protesters who died, as well as hiding hundreds of women and children who sought shelter among the bodies. In the evening, security forces evacuated the mosque, Rābiʿa hospital and the field hospital, ordered the survivors to leave the bodies and injured people, and likely set fire to the mosque and the first floor of the field hospital and the main stage in front of the mosque, with eyewitness accounts said to have people supposed to have been burned in the fire of the field hospital. When night fell, both the mosque and the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Medical Center in the south of the mosque and the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya field hospital northeast of the mosque were in flames.
The military-backed regime had Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Square cordoned off on the morning of August 15 and kept closed for three months in order to renovate the square with extensive works. After the opening, memories of the mass killing of the renovated square and its surroundings were eliminated and instead an abstract Rābiʿa sculpture was erected as a memorial in the middle of the square, symbolizing the cooperation between the army and police to “protect” the Egyptian population. The memorial was criticized for being more of a historical revisionist than a work- up. The charred Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque had been repainted with a semi-matt white paint. Similar to the redesign of Tahrir Square , in which groups considered to be pro-democracy saw the symbolism being appropriated by the military-backed regime, the new statue in honor of the security forces at the site of the largest mass killing in Egypt's recent history was rejected by Morsi's supporters .
At least three people were killed in protests marking the first anniversary of the mass killing in Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya and Nahda Squares on August 14, 2014, when police destroyed attempts by supporters of Morsi on the first anniversary of the mass killing on August 14 in To remember Cairo.
Symbolic meaning
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The Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque has a high level of mystical and religious symbolism, as the religious narrative of the mosque's namesake, Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya, who died over twelve centuries ago and is venerated as a saint in Islam, is cultivated in Egypt and Islamist coup opponents opportunities to identify with the saint who, according to the story, lived as a slave during the day and prayed at night. After the mass killings of pro-Mursi protesters in July and August 2013 in Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Square in front of the Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya Mosque in Nasr City, the R4bia campaign also referred to the name of the saints in the square and the mosque and became a lasting symbol of the anti-coup movement of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Nasr-City is also a stronghold of middle-class families with sympathy for the Islamists and a place with high national and historical symbolism. Within Cairo, Nasr City is seen as the center of the Muslim Brotherhood, which continued to support President Mohammed Morsi, who was overthrown by the military, even after the military coup on July 3, 2013.
Since then, Rābiʿa has been a symbol (protest spelling based on an Arabic meaning of the word as the maiden name "Fourth" also: "R4bia") for the protest against the military dictatorship and is used as a reminder of the mass killing of demonstrators by Egyptian security forces in front of the Rabia-al- Adawija Mosque of August 14, 2013.
Individual evidence
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