Uwais-al-Qaranī Mosque

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Main gate of the Oweis Qarni Mosque (2009; destroyed today)

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 .

Web links

Commons : Oweis-Qarni-Mosque  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The Shiite crescent eclipsed. April 16, 2013, accessed August 24, 2014 .