{{Short description|Mosque in Gaza, Palestine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox religious building | building_name = Sayed al-Hashim Mosque | native_name = {{lang|ar|مسجد السيد هاشم}} | native_name_lang = ar | image = -صورة من زاوية اخرى لقباب مسجد السيد هاشم.jpg | image_upright = 1.4 | caption = The mosque in 2017 | location = [[al-Wehda Street]], [[al-Daraj|ad-Darrāj Quarter]], [[Gaza City#Old City|Old City]], [[Gaza City|Gaza]], [[Gaza Strip]] | country = [[Palestine]] | map_type = Palestine Gaza | map_relief = 1 | map_caption = Location within Gaza | map_size = 250 | mapframe = yes | coordinates = {{coord|31.508056|34.463347|type:landmark_region:PS|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | religious_affiliation = [[Islam]] | status = [[Mosque]] | functional_status = Active | website = | architect = | architecture_type = | architecture_style = {{ubl|[[Mamluk architecture|Mamluk]]|[[Ottoman architecture|Ottoman]]}} | year_completed = {{ubl|12th century [[Common Era|CE]] {{small|(prime)}}|1850 CE {{small|(reconstruction)}}}} | construction_cost = | capacity = | dome_quantity = One {{small|(maybe more)}} | dome_height_outer = | dome_dia_outer = | minaret_quantity = One | minaret_height = | materials = }} The '''Sayed al-Hashim Mosque''' ({{langx|ar|مسجد السيد هاشم|Masjid as-Sayed Hāshim}}; {{langx|tr|Seyyid Haşim Camii}}) is one of the largest and oldest mosques in [[Gaza City|Gaza]], in the [[Palestine|State of Palestine]], located in the [[al-Daraj|ad-Darrāj Quarter]] of the [[Gaza City#Old City|Old City]], off [[al-Wehda Street]]. The tomb of [[Hashim ibn Abd al-Manaf]], [[Muhammad]]'s great grandfather who died in Gaza during a trading voyage, is located under the dome of the mosque according to [[Muslim]] tradition.<ref name="TWP"/>
== Overview == A mosque and [[hostel]] have been located at the present site since at least the 12th century CE. The mosque had a ''[[madrasa]]'' and was a center for religious learning in the 19th and parts of the 20th century. The mosque was named after Hashim. The Sayed al-Hashim Mosque was frequented by visiting traders from [[Egypt]], [[Arabia]] and [[Morocco]].<ref name="TWP">{{Cite web| url=http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1911&ed=130&edid=130 |title=Mosque of Sayyed Hashim - Gaza |website=thisweekinpalestine.com |date=October 2006 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=9 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209211750/http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1911&ed=130&edid=130 | via=An excerpt from ''Palestine: A Guide'', Interlink Publishers, 2005.}}</ref>
The existing mosque was built in 1850, on the orders of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] sultan [[Abdülmecid I|Abdul Majid]]. Some of the older materials used in the mosque’s construction were taken from the mosques and other buildings destroyed by [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s troops. The original Ottoman minaret was rebuilt in 1903 and the north and west aisles were also built during the same period. The mausoleum of Hashim is located in the north-western corner of the mosque.<ref name="TWP"/> The mosque was damaged as a result of an Israeli airstrike in October 2023, during the [[Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saber |first=Indlieb Farazi |title=A ‘cultural genocide’: Which of Gaza’s heritage sites have been destroyed? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/a-cultural-genocide-which-of-gazas-heritage-sites-have-been-destroyed |date=2024-01-14 |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=[[Al Jazeera]] |language=en |archive-date=January 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127233431/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/a-cultural-genocide-which-of-gazas-heritage-sites-have-been-destroyed |url-status=live }}</ref>
==See also== {{stack|{{portal|Islam|Palestine}}}} * [[List of mosques in Palestine]] * [[Islam in Palestine]] * [[Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip]]
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{{Mosques in Palestine}} {{Gaza City}}
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