Uwais-al-Qaranī Mosque
The Uwais-al-Qaranī Mosque (also Owais-Qarni Mosque , Arabic مسجد أويس القرني, DMG Masǧid Uways al-Qaranī ) was a Shiite mosque in the Syrian city of ar-Raqqa that was destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014 .
history
The mosque contained the shrines of Ammar bin Jasser and Uwais al-Qaranī , who died in 657 at the Battle of Siffin - which took place 40 kilometers west of Raqqa.
The original graves were in the Old Cemetery on the outskirts of the city. In 1988, the then Alawite President Hafiz al-Assad of the Ba'ath Party and the supreme “ leader ” of the majority Shiite Iran , Ayatollah Khomeini , decided to initiate a project to build a new mosque around the shrines. Work on this ended in 2003, and a commemorative plaque reminded the current President Bashar al-Assad and Iranian counterpart Mohammad Chātami for their completion of the project.
The Oweis Qarni Mosque was blown up on May 31, 2014 by the terrorist organization “ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ” and completely destroyed because it was a Shiite building .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Shiite crescent eclipsed. April 16, 2013, accessed August 24, 2014 .